Firewheel tree
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![]() Firewheel Tree ( Stenocarpus sinuatus ) |
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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
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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 .