Eucalyptus radiata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus radiata Sieber ex DC.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (8), Cheal_2017 (7), Clarke_2015 (2), Harrison_2009 (13), Ilic_2000 (6), Jordan_2001 (4), Kew_2019_1 (3), Lawson_2015 (4), McGlone_2015 (6), Meers_2007 (11), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), Pfautsch_2016 (15), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (17), Richards_2008 (2), Richards_2021 (84), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (75), Stephens_2024 (16), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), Wright_2000 (3), Zolfaghar_2015 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 85 traits from 332 records in 27 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 (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Meers_2007]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; Stephens_2024]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.17 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3); caryopsis (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1335.91 mm2 (534.15-2098.7 mm2) [sources: Meers_2007; Richards_2021; Staples_2019]
leaf_length (numerical): 109.38 mm (45-180 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 13.25 mm (6-27 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 176.2 mg (83.8-327.4 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 145.08 g/m2 (99.6-212.44 g/m2) [sources: Harrison_2009; Meers_2007; Richards_2021; Staples_2019]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.52 g/g (0.44-0.57 g/g) [sources: Richards_2021]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.96 g/g (0.77-1.26 g/g) [sources: Richards_2021]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); lanceolate (2); linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Harrison_2009; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Meers_2007]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Meers_2007; White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Meers_2007]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (2) [sources: Meers_2007; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnnyyy (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 (2) [sources: Meers_2007; White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Meers_2007]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.49 mg/g (12.1-18.25 mg/g) [sources: Harrison_2009; Richards_2008; Richards_2021]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.6 mg/g (1.6-1.6 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.56 {delta}[ppth] (-30.69--22.9 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Harrison_2009; Richards_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.92 mg (0.3-9.43 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Meers_2007]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.58 mg/mm3 (0.45-0.68 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Lawson_2015; Pfautsch_2016; Zolfaghar_2015]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 6.85 {count}/mm2 (5.54-7.59 {count}/mm2) [sources: Pfautsch_2016]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 131.47 um (117.73-153.89 um) [sources: Pfautsch_2016]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.1 mm2/mm2 (0.07-0.15 mm2/mm2) [sources: Pfautsch_2016]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 35 m (10-50 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Richards_2021	14	84	J. H. Richards, J. J. Henn, Q. M. Sorenson, M. A. Adams, D. D. Smith, K. A. McCulloh, and T. J. Givnish. “Mistletoes and their eucalypt hosts differ in the response of leaf functional traits to climatic moisture supply”. Oecologia 195 (2021), pp. 759-771. doi: 10.1007/s00442-021-04867-1.
Staples_2019	3	75	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	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	15	17	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	11	16	N. 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/.
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).
Pfautsch_2016	5	15	S. Pfautsch. “Vessel diameter and related hydraulic traits of 31 Eucalyptus species arrayed along a gradient of water availability”. Ecology 97.6 (2016), pp. 1626-1626. doi: 10.1890/16-0147.1.
Harrison_2009	12	13	M. T. Harrison, E. J. Edwards, G. D. Farquhar, A. B. Nicotra, and J. R. Evans. “Nitrogen in cell walls of sclerophyllous leaves accounts for little of the variation in photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency”. Plant, Cell and Environment 32 (2009), pp. 259-270. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01918.x.
Meers_2007	11	11	T. Meers. “Role of plant functional traits in determining the response of vegetation to land use change on the Delatite Peninsula, Victoria.”. PhD. University of Melbourne, 2007.
ABRS_2023	7	8	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cheal_2017	7	7	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.
Ilic_2000	1	6	J. 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.
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.
Jordan_2001	4	4	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Lawson_2015	1	4	J. R. Lawson, K. A. Fryirs, and M. R. Leishman. “Data from: Hydrological conditions explain wood density in riparian plants of south-eastern Australia”. Dryad Digital Repository (2015). doi: 10.5061/dryad.72h45.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Wright_2000	3	3	I. 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.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. 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.
Richards_2008	2	2	A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Zolfaghar_2015	1	1	S. 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.