AusTraits

Eucalyptus pellita

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus pellita F.Muell.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus biterranea L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus resinifera var. pellita (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucalyptus resinifera var. spectabilis (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus sp. (Mt Tozer K.D.Hill+ 1862) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus sp. A (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus spectabilis F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), CPBR_2002 (8), Cooper_2013 (11), Gallagher_2015 (1), Gross_2005 (4), Hughes_1992 (3), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (6), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (5), Nicolle_2006 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3), Zanne_2009 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 106 records in 21 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 11.67 mm (6-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 11.83 mm (7-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2083 mm2 (2083-2083 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 139.17 mm (95-230 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35.83 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1.5-2.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Leishman_1995]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); yynnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Stephens_2024]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (2) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.87 mg (0.76-14.93 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.76 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.86 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 30 m (10-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Stephens_2024712R. 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).
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011811R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
CPBR_200258Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_116Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nicolle_200636D. Nicolle. “A classification and census of regenerative strategies in the eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus - Myrtaceae), with special reference to the obligate seeders”. Australian Journal of Botany 54.4 (2006), pp. 391-407. doi: 10.1071/bt05061.
Leishman_199555M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Zanne_200914A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Hughes_199233L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Wright_200033I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Ilic_200012J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Gallagher_201511R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.