Stenocarpus davallioides, commonly known as the fern-leaved stenocarpus,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north Queensland. It is a tree with simple or pinnate adult leaves, groups of creamy-green flowers and narrow oblong follicles.
Stenocarpus davallioides is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to with a dbh of up to and some buttressing of the base. Young plants and coppice regrowth have finely divided, fern-like leaves up to long on a petiole up to long. Adult leaves are mainly simple, lance-shaped and long on a petiole long, but some are intermediate, resembling the juvenile leaves. The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils with up to fifteen flowers on a peduncle long, the individual flowers creamy-green and long, each on a pedicel long. Flowering mainly occurs in November and the fruit is a narrow oblong follicle up to long, containing up to eight winged seeds.[2] [3]
Stenocarpus davallioides was first formally described in 1988 by Donald Bruce Foreman and Bernard Hyland in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected by Hyland in 1975.[4] Davallia is a species of fern and the suffix -oides means "like" or "resembling".[5]
Fern-leaved stenocarpus is native to northern Queensland, where it is found on Thornton Peak and Mount Lewis National Park, ranging from above sea level.[2]
This species is rarely cultivated, but can grow in subtropical climates, though its frost tolerance is unknown.[6]