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
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 .