Eucalyptus salubris

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus salubris F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eucalyptus salubris F.Muell. var. salubris (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (23), ANBG_2019 (4), Barrett_2009 (14), Bloomfield_2018 (249), CPBR_2002 (7), Clarke_2015 (3), Draper_2023 (3), Gallagher_2015 (1), Gosper_2018 (7), Gosper_2022 (6), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_6 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), Nicolle_2006 (3), Pfautsch_2016 (16), Rumman_2018 (4), Schulze_2006_2 (121), Schulze_2014 (34), Shedley_2007 (32), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (75), Stephens_2021 (1), Stephens_2024 (16), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 86 traits from 654 records in 31 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): fire_killed (7); partial_resprouting (7) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2018; Gosper_2022; Nicolle_2006; Schulze_2006_2; Shedley_2007]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (10) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Shedley_2007]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 596.82 mm2 (363.08-2027.98 mm2) [sources: Schulze_2006_2; Schulze_2014; Staples_2019]
leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (45-105 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 238.39 mg (145-695.5 mg) [sources: Schulze_2006_2; Staples_2019]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.15 cm (0.8-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 346.15 g/m2 (218.06-496.45 g/m2) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Schulze_2006_2; Schulze_2014; Staples_2019]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.56 g/g (0.54-0.58 g/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Rumman_2018]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_lanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (1); tree (15) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Gosper_2018; Rumman_2018; Shedley_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gosper_2018; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schulze_2014]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (1); mammal (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyny (1); yyynnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021; Stephens_2024]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (11); soil_seedbank_absent (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2018; Gosper_2022; Shedley_2007]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (3) [sources: Gosper_2018; Gosper_2022; Nicolle_2006]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (4); none (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nicolle_2006; Shedley_2007]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.64 mg/g (8.1-14.61 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Schulze_2006_2; Schulze_2014]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.52 mg/g (0.43-0.78 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -25.1 {delta}[ppth] (-28.37--23.39 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Rumman_2018; Schulze_2006_2; Schulze_2014]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_area_maximum (numerical): 16.67 umol{CO2}/m2/s (10.34-24.27 umol{CO2}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_dry_mass_maximum (numerical): 0.07 umol{CO2}/g/s (0.04-0.09 umol{CO2}/g/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_stomatal_conductance_per_area_at_Amax (numerical): 55.33 mmol{H2O}/m2/s (26.1-101.8 mmol{H2O}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.85 mg (0.18-3.63 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.91 mg/mm3 (0.87-1 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Pfautsch_2016]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 73.91 {count}/mm2 (45.66-90.63 {count}/mm2) [sources: Pfautsch_2016]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 42.87 um (36.6-47.5 um) [sources: Pfautsch_2016]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.11 mm2/mm2 (0.09-0.15 mm2/mm2) [sources: Pfautsch_2016]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 13.17 m (4-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Bloomfield_2018	24	249	K. J. Bloomfield, L. A. Cernusak, D. Eamus, D. S. Ellsworth, I. C. Prentice, I. J. Wright, M. M. Boer, M. G. Bradford, P. Cale, J. Cleverly, J. J. G. Egerton, B. J. Evans, L. S. Hayes, M. F. Hutchinson, M. J. Liddell, C. Macfarlane, W. S. Meyer, S. M. Prober, H. F. Togashi, T. Wardlaw, L. Zhu, and O. K. Atkin. “A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons”. Functional Ecology 32.6 (2018), pp. 1492-1506. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13097.
Schulze_2006_2	7	121	E. Schulze, N. C. Turner, D. Nicolle, and J. Schumacher. “Leaf and wood carbon isotope ratios, specific leaf areas and woodgrowth of Eucalyptus species across a rainfall gradient in Australia”. Tree Physiology 26.4 (2006), pp. 479-492. doi: 10.1093/treephys/26.4.479.
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.
Schulze_2014	10	34	E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
Shedley_2007	5	32	E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
ABRS_2023	12	23	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Pfautsch_2016	6	16	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.
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).
Barrett_2009	6	14	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.
CPBR_2002	4	7	Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Gosper_2018	7	7	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
ABRS_2022	3	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gosper_2022	6	6	C. R. Gosper, B. P. Miller, R. V. Gallagher, J. Kinloch, R. van Dongen, E. Adams, S. Barrett, A. Cochrane, S. Comer, L. McCaw, R. G. Miller, S. M. Prober, and C. J. Yates. “Mapping risk to plant populations from short fire intervals via relationships between maturation period and environmental productivity”. Plant Ecology (2022). doi: 10.1007/s11258-022-01229-6.
ANBG_2019	1	4	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Kew_2019_1	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rumman_2018	4	4	R. Rumman, O. K. Atkin, K. J. Bloomfield, and D. Eamus. “Variation in bulk-leaf 13C discrimination, leaf traits and wateruse efficiency-trait relationships along a continental-scale climate gradient in Australia”. Global Change Biology 24 (2018), pp. 1186-1200. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13911.
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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Clarke_2015	3	3	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.
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.
Ilic_2000	1	3	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.
Nicolle_2006	3	3	D. 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.
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/.
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.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Gallagher_2015	1	1	R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.