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Eucalyptus kessellii

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus kessellii Maiden & Blakely

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus kesselli Maiden & Blakely (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (6), CPBR_2002 (8), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (14), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 43 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (7-17 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (9-21 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (70-145 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 28.5 mm (14-45 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 502.68 g/m2 (502.68-502.68 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (3); tree (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; CPBR_2002; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nynnnynyyyyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 7.5 mg/g (7.5-7.5 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.66 {delta}[ppth] (-26.66--26.66 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (2-10 m) [sources: CPBR_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Stephens_2024814R. E. Stephens, H. Sauquet, B. Laugier, C. Gosper, and R. V. Gallagher. “Eucalypt flower size and colour shaped more by pollination than abiotic environment”. in review (2024).
CPBR_200258Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Barrett_200936S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Schulze_200633E. Schulze, N. C. Turner, D. Nicolle, and J. Schumacher. “Species differences in carbon isotope ratios, specific leaf area and nitrogen concentrations in leaves of Eucalyptus growing in a common garden compared with along an aridity gradient”. Physiologia Plantarum 127.3 (2006), pp. 434-444. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00682.x.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.