AusTraits

Eucalyptus rodwayi

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus rodwayi R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm.

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus aggregata H.Deane & Maiden (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), ANBG_2019 (1), CPBR_2002 (8), Jordan_2001 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (4), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Nicolle_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (80), Stephens_2024 (16), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 156 records in 16 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); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2506.53 mm2 (658.65-3926.99 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Staples_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 89 mm (25-135 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.62 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 248.3 mg (129.1-392.9 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.05 cm (0.7-1.4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 227.15 g/m2 (173.73-279.89 g/m2) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.41 mg (0.22-1.3 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.2-2 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.59 mg/mm3 (0.5-0.63 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 21 m (18-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Staples_2019480T. 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.
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_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).
CPBR_200258Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
McGlone_201566M. 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_200144G. 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.
Kew_2019_614Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
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.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Mokany_201522K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.