AusTraits

Syzygium eucalyptoides subsp. bleeseri

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium eucalyptoides subsp. bleeseri (O.Schwarz) B.Hyland

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eugenia bleeseri O.Schwarz (basionym)
  • Eugenia stokesii C.A.Gardner (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Lawes_2012 (15), NTH_2014 (10), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (23). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 79 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 (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3414.67 mm2 (1302-5157 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 91.25 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 85 mm (20-165 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 171.4 g/m2 (141.48-217.7 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); orbicular (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.45 mg/mm3 (0.45-0.45 mg/mm3) [sources: Wright_2008]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7.83 m (2-10 m) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wright_2008923I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
Lawes_2012115M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
NTH_2014810Northern 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.
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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. 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.