AusTraits

Eucalyptus racemosa

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus racemosa Cav.

Synonyms: 14 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus haemastoma subsp. capitata N.Hall (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus haemastoma subsp. sclerophylla N.Hall (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus haemastoma var. capitata Maiden (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus haemastoma var. micrantha (DC.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus haemastoma var. sclerophylla Blakely (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus micrantha DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus micrantha DC. var. micrantha (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus micrantha var. signata (F.Muell.) Blakely (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus racemosa Cav. subsp. racemosa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucalyptus racemosa Cav. var. racemosa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucalyptus racemosa var. signata (F.Muell.) R.D.Johnst. & Marryatt (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus racemosus Cav. (orthographic variant)
  • Eucalyptus sclerophylla (Blakely) L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus signata F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (12), ABRS_2023 (71), Benwell_2024 (4), CPBR_2002 (8), Clarke_2015 (2), Duncan_1998 (13), Fonseca_2000 (5), Gallagher_2018 (20), Hughes_1992 (3), Ilic_2000 (6), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kubiak_2009 (1), Lee_2019 (15), McCarthy_2017 (10), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (12), NHNSW_2022 (6), NHNSW_2023 (32), NSWFRD_2014 (20), Nicolle_2006 (3), Niinemets_2009 (74), Nolan_2022 (35), Ooi_2007 (56), Portelli_2023 (58), Schmidt_1993 (1), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (16), Taylor_2008 (44), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westman_1977 (100), White_2020 (55), Wright_2000 (1), Wright_2009 (35), Zolfaghar_2015 (50). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 159 traits from 782 records in 36 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 (8) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Nicolle_2006]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (4) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; Stephens_2024]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 53.06 mg (39.28-100.18 mg) [sources: Portelli_2023]
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.83 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.67 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5.75 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2308.19 mm2 (1228.48-4599 mm2) [sources: Duncan_1998; Fonseca_2000; Gallagher_2018; McCarthy_2017; Niinemets_2009; Nolan_2022; Portelli_2023]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 113.12 mm (50-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25.37 mm (10-85 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 600.06 mg (421.12-796.87 mg) [sources: Duncan_1998; Fonseca_2000; Gallagher_2018; Nolan_2022; Portelli_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.51 cm (1-2.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 243.37 g/m2 (170.3-312.5 g/m2) [sources: Duncan_1998; Fonseca_2000; Gallagher_2018; McCarthy_2017; Niinemets_2009; Nolan_2022; Portelli_2023; Schulze_2006; Taylor_2008; Zolfaghar_2015]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.54 g/g (0.49-0.58 g/g) [sources: Duncan_1998; Nolan_2022]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); lanceolate (6); narrowly_lanceolate (2); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); oblique (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (5) [sources: Duncan_1998; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (1); tree (16) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2); barochory (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); yynnnnnnnnny (2); yyynnnnnnnny (1); yyynnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; Stephens_2024; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (3); none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (3) [sources: Ooi_2007]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NSWFRD_2014; Nicolle_2006]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Nicolle_2006]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.76 mg/g (6.7-14 mg/g) [sources: Gallagher_2018; Niinemets_2009; Schulze_2006; Taylor_2008; Westman_1977]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.45 mg/g (0.24-0.8 mg/g) [sources: Gallagher_2018; Niinemets_2009; Westman_1977]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.11 {delta}[ppth] (-31.32--27.19 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Niinemets_2009; Schulze_2006]
physiology
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.89 mg (0.23-7.57 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Ooi_2007; Portelli_2023]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.59 mg/mm3 (0.45-0.94 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Lee_2019; Portelli_2023; Taylor_2008; Zolfaghar_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Taylor_2008]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Westman_197731100W. Westman and R. V. Roggers. “Nutrient stocks in a subtropical eucalypt forest, North Stradbroke Island”. Austral Ecology 2.4 (1977), pp. 447-460. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1977.tb01160.x.
Niinemets_20092674Ü. Niinemets, I. J. Wright, and J. R. Evans. “Leaf mesophyll diffusion conductance in 35 Australian sclerophylls covering a broad range of foliage structural and physiological variation”. Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (2009), pp. 2433-2449. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erp045.
ABRS_20231871Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Portelli_20231158A. M. Portelli, S. M. Windecker, L. J. Pollock, W. C. Neal, W. K. Morris, R. Khot, and P. A. Vesk. “From mallees to mountain ash, specific leaf area is coordinated with eucalypt tree stature, resprouting, stem construction, and fruit size”. Australian Journal of Botany 71.8 (2023). Ed. by D. Williams, pp. 506-522. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23028.
Ooi_2007256M. K. J. Ooi, P. Myerscough, and T. Auld. “Unpublished data: Longterm seed mass field campaign, University of New South Wales”. 2007.
White_20201955M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Zolfaghar_2015850S. Zolfaghar, R. Villalobos-Vega, J. Cleverly, and D. Eamus. “Co-ordination among leaf water relations and xylem vulnerability to embolism of Eucalyptus trees growing along a depth-to-groundwater gradient”. Tree Physiology 35.7 (2015). Ed. by N. Phillips, pp. 732-743. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpv039.
Taylor_20081144D. Taylor and D. Eamus. “Coordinating leaf functional traits with branch hydraulic conductivity: Resource substitution and implications for carbon gain”. Tree Physiology 28.8 (2008), pp. 1169-1177. doi: doi.org/10.1093/treephys/28.8.1169.
Nolan_2022735Nolan and R. Helene. “Drought-related leaf functional traits control spatial and temporal dynamics of live fuel moisture content”. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology unknown.unknown (2022), p. unknown. doi: unknown.
Wright_20091335I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Leaf pigment and reflectance data for sclerophylls, Macquarie University”. 2009.
NHNSW_20231132N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Gallagher_2018520R. Gallagher, A. Phillips, B. Laugier-Kitchener, C. Laws, D. Lanceman, D. M. Londono, E. McFarlane, J. Foster, K. Marais, L. Pollitt, L. Kovac, M. Lambert, S. Amini, T. Boreham, T. Pyne, H. McPherson, M. Rossetto, M. van der Merwe, I. Wright, and and Matthew Alfonzetti. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Macquarie University”. 2018.
NSWFRD_20141020B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Stephens_2024916R. 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).
Lee_2019515M. R. Lee, J. R. Powell, B. Oberle, W. K. Cornwell, M. Lyons, J. L. Rigg, and A. E. Zanne. “Good neighbors aplenty: fungal endophytes rarely exhibit competitive exclusion patterns across a span of woody habitats”. Ecology 100.9 (2019), p. e02790. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2790.
Duncan_19981313D. H. Duncan. “Unpublished data: Structural basis of variation in leaf mass per area in three plant clades, Macquarie University”. 1998.
ABRS_2022312Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_2412Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
McCarthy_2017210J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
CPBR_200258Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Ilic_200016J. 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.
NHNSW_202236N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Fonseca_200055C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
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.
Hughes_199233L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nicolle_200633D. 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.
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.
Clarke_201512P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kubiak_200911P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.