Stenocarpus acacioides explained

Stenocarpus acacioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a shrub or tree with elliptic leaves and groups of white flowers and woody, linear follicles.

Description

Stenocarpus acacioides is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of, sometimes to, and is glabrous apart from woolly, rust-coloured hairs on new flower buds. The adult leaves are elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. Juvenile leaves are egg-shaped, longer and wider than adult leaves. The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils, either singly, in pairs or threes, the groups with 19 to 22 flowers on a peduncle long. Each flower in the group is white, on a pedicel long. Flowering occurs from April to October and the fruit is a woody, linear follicle long, containing winged seeds about long.[1]

Taxonomy

Stenocarpus acacioides was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near the Roper River.[2] [3] The specific epithet (acacioides) means "Acacia-like".[4]

Distribution and habitat

This species usually grows in woodland and occurs from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to the northern parts of the Northern Territory.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foreman . Donald B. . Stenocarpus acacioides . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 11 September 2021.
  2. Web site: Stenocarpus acacioides. APNI. 11 September 2021.
  3. Book: von Mueller . Ferdinand . Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae . 1859 . Victorian Government Printer . Melbourne . 135 . 11 September 2021.
  4. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 125 . 3rd.
  5. Web site: Stenocarpus acacioides . Northern Territory Government . 11 September 2021.