Syzygium eucalyptoides

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium eucalyptoides (F.Muell.) B.Hyland

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eugenia eucalyptoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Jambosa eucalyptoides F.Muell. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lord_1997 (4), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (25), Prior_2003 (191), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 255 records in 16 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 (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_colour (categorical): pink (2); red (2); white (3) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4476.47 mm2 (3848.67-5155.67 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_length (numerical): 106.25 mm (40-185 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 40.5 mm (8-95 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.85 cm (0.5-1.2 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 148.82 g/m2 (109.73-195.67 g/m2) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.35 g/g (0.29-0.41 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.9 g/g (1.43-2.5 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); falcate (1); lanceolate (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); obovate (1); orbicular (2) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Prior_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (5) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Prior_2003]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyynyyyy (1); nnnnyyyyyyyn (2) [sources: Stephens_2021; WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.1 mg/g (7.1-12.3 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.57 mg/g (0.42-0.69 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3922.05 mg (1830-6014.1 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.67 m (1-18 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Prior_2003	21	191	L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
NTH_2023	13	25	D. 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/.
Wright_2000	7	7	I. 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.
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. 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_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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. 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_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_2014	2	2	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Stephens_2021	1	2	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.