Eucalyptus splendens

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus splendens Rule

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

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Nicolle_2006 (3), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (15), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 72 records in 12 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 (1) [sources: Nicolle_2006]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.75 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_height (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); caryopsis (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 191.67 mm (100-250 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 171.9 g/m2 (171.9-171.9 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); lanceolate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (1); tree (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (2); mammal (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Nicolle_2006]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 20.2 mg/g (20.2-20.2 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.42 {delta}[ppth] (-27.42--27.42 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.5 mg (0.43-0.54 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

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

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	16	16	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Stephens_2024	9	15	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).
RBGV_2023	13	13	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Schulze_2006	3	3	E. 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.
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.