AusTraits

Eucalyptus sp. Little Sandy Desert (D.Nicolle & M.French DN 4304)

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus sp. Little Sandy Desert (D.Nicolle & M.French DN 4304) D.Nicolle

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus oldfieldii subsp. Millar Range (M.French 303) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus oldfieldii subsp. nana D.Nicolle (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus oldfieldii subsp. paupera D.Nicolle (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Gallagher_2015 (1), Nicolle_2006 (3), Schulze_2006_2 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (1), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 34 records in 8 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1165.67 mm2 (983-1399 mm2) [sources: Schulze_2006_2]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 457.33 mg (371-512 mg) [sources: Schulze_2006_2]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 394.08 g/m2 (365.99-438.59 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006_2]
life history
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.27 mg/g (8.8-11.6 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006_2]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.94 {delta}[ppth] (-27.1--26.7 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2-3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Schulze_2006_2719E. 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.
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.
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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Gallagher_201511R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
Wenk_202211E. 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.