AusTraits

Eucalyptus tintinnans

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus tintinnans (Blakely & Jacobs) L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus platyphylla var. tintinnans Blakely & Jacobs (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), CPBR_2002 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (22), Nano_2011 (2), Nicolle_2006 (3), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 99 records in 17 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: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Nicolle_2006; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.83 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.17 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2396 mm2 (2396-2396 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 85 mm (55-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 53.12 mm (35-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.12 cm (2.3-4.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 205.99 g/m2 (205.99-205.99 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): deltate (1); narrowly_ovate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2); opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyynnnn (1); nnnnnnyyynnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014; Stephens_2024]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Nicolle_2006]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Nicolle_2006]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 13 m (9-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231722D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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_2024812R. 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.
Wright_200888I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.