Eucalyptus phenax

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus phenax Brooker & Slee

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eucalyptus phenax subsp. phenax 'Hills Variant' (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eucalyptus anceps (R.Br. ex Maiden) Blakely (pro parte misapplied)
Eucalyptus anceps (R.Br. ex Maiden) Blakely (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (6), Cheal_2017 (8), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (64), Stephens_2024 (16), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 138 records in 14 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Cheal_2017; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 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_area (numerical): 1015.06 mm2 (474.66-1625.76 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (50-130 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Stephens_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 20.75 mm (8-35 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Stephens_2024]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 518.43 mg (229.6-821.1 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 466.68 g/m2 (425.36-564.45 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006; Staples_2019]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (3); tree (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; McGlone_2015; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (2); mammal (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (1); yyyyynnnnyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2024; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.1 mg/g (9.1-9.1 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.26 {delta}[ppth] (-28.26--28.26 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.91 mg (0.91-0.91 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.84 mg/mm3 (0.81-0.89 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6.5 m (6-7 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Staples_2019	4	64	T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Stephens_2024	9	16	R. 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).
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Barrett_2009	3	6	S. 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.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Schulze_2006	3	3	E. 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_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.