AusTraits

Eucalyptus resinifera

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus resinifera J.White

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Melaleuca gummifera Steud. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Benwell_2024 (4), Cheal_2017 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Hughes_1992 (3), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (5), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kubiak_2009 (2), Lawson_2015 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (16), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (4), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 108 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
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (5) [sources: Benwell_2024; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; Williams_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; Stephens_2024]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7.33 mm (3-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 126.67 mm (60-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 27 mm (13-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.25 cm (1.5-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 221.6 g/m2 (221.6-221.6 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; Stephens_2024]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.5 mg/g (14.5-14.5 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.01 {delta}[ppth] (-29.01--29.01 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.98 mg (0.49-5.68 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.71 mg/mm3 (0.59-0.86 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Lawson_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 35 m (15-45 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2023]

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.
NHNSW_20231116N. 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_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).
Cheal_201788D. 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.
Kew_2019_115Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Williams_201244P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
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.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Hughes_199233L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Ilic_200013J. 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_202233N. 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/.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kubiak_200922P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Lawson_201512J. 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.
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.