Firewheel tree

Firewheel tree
	Firewheel Tree ( Stenocarpus sinuatus )
Systematics
Class :	Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
	Eudicotyledons
Order :	Silver tree-like (Proteales)
Family :	Silver tree family (Proteaceae)
Genre :	Stenocarpus
Type :	Firewheel tree
Scientific name
	Stenocarpus sinuatus
	Final

The Firewheel ( Stenocarpus sinuatus ) is a flowering plant in the family of proteaceae (Proteaceae). It is native to eastern Australia and is used as an ornamental plant.

description

Inflorescences of the firewheel tree

Leaf of the firewheel tree

The firewheel tree grows as an evergreen tree that can reach heights of around 10 to over 20 meters and is very slow-growing. The upright trunks have a thick, smooth, reddish-brown bark . A dense crown is formed. The opposite leaves have a length of up to 30 centimeters, are glossy dark green and bare.

Its bright orange-red flowers , which stand together in dold-like inflorescences with a diameter of up to 10 centimeters, it owes the common name of the "firewheel tree". The woody fruits are oval with a length of 5 to 10 centimeters.

distribution

The natural range of the firewheel tree are the rainforests in eastern Australia , northeastern New South Wales and eastern Queensland .

Systematics

It was first published in 1848 under the name Stenocarpus sinuatus by the Austrian botanist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher in Genera Plantarum , Suppl. 4 (2), p. 88. Endlicher referred to an earlier description under the name Agnostus sinuata A. Cunn. ex Loudon in Loudon's Hortus Britannicus. A catalog… , Suppl. 1, 1832, p. 580, which, however, has never been validly published and is therefore not an official Basionym .

Sources and further information

literature

Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica: The ABC of Plants. 10,000 species in text and images . Edition Könemann in the Tandem Verlag GmbH, 2003, ISBN 3-89731-900-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Stenocarpus sinuatus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
↑ Gen. pl. , suppl. 4 (2), 1848, p. 88 Scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .
↑ Entry in Tropicos .

Web links

Commons : Firewheel Tree - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

[GRIN-1] Stenocarpus sinuatus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

[biodiversitylibrary-2] Gen. pl. , suppl. 4 (2), 1848, p. 88 Scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .

[tropicos-3] Entry in Tropicos .