AusTraits

Eucryphia lucida

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Family Cunoniaceae

Taxonomy: Eucryphia lucida (Labill.) Baill.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Carpodontos lucida Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucryphia billardierei Spach (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucryphia billardierei Spach var. billardierei (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucryphia billardieri Spach (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucryphia lucida (Labill.) Baill. var. lucida (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Bloomfield_2018 (125), Clarke_2015 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), Kooyman_2011 (12), Lusk_2012 (10), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (1), Prior_2022 (12), Rumman_2018 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Smith_1996 (185), Stephens_2023 (1), TMAG_2009 (12), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7), eFLOWER_2021 (37). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 102 traits from 440 records in 21 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 (4); resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kirkpatrick_2020; Prior_2022]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 374.08 mm2 (119.8-517.4 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 38.82 mm (20.5-52 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.77 mm (6-21 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 29.23 mg (17.41-40 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 110.49 g/m2 (67.25-190.35 g/m2) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Lusk_2012; Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 5.84 mm2/mg (5.84-5.84 mm2/mg) [sources: Lusk_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.48 g/g (0.35-0.58 g/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.24 g/g (1.09-1.84 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Rumman_2018]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 21 deg (0-50 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Rumman_2018; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
  • pollination_system (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnny (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); none (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Prior_2022]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8.4 mg/g (7.34-10.11 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.52 mg/g (0.18-0.81 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.24 {delta}[ppth] (-31.05--29.42 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Rumman_2018; Tng_2013]
physiology
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.18 mg (1.18-1.18 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.57 mm (0.63-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.83 mm (0.16-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.59-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Tng_2013]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 11.55 um (11.3-11.8 um) [sources: Lusk_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Smith_199617185B. Smith. “Community-level convergence and community structure of temperate Nothofagus forests”. PhD. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1996. url: http://web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith/thesis/thesis.html.
Bloomfield_201824125K. 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.
eFLOWER_20212337J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
Kooyman_2011912R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Prior_2022312L. D. Prior, S. M. Foyster, J. M. Furlaud, G. J. Williamson, and D. M. Bowman. “Using permanent forest plots to evaluate the resilience to fire of Tasmania's tall wet eucalypt forests”. Forest Ecology and Management 505 (2022), p. 119922. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119922.
TMAG_20091012Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Lusk_2012610C. H. Lusk, J. W. G. Kelly, and S. M. Gleason. “Light requirements of Australian tropical vs. cool-temperate rainforest tree species show different relationships with seedling growth and functional traits”. Annals of Botany 111 (2012), pp. 479-488. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcs289.
Jordan_200177G. 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.
Wright_200077I. 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.
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.
Tng_201366D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Rumman_201844R. 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_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.
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.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_200011J. 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Mokany_201511K. 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.
Stephens_202311R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.