Stenocarpus acacioides
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.
Taxonomy
Stenocarpus acacioides was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near the Roper River. The specific epithet means "Acacia-like".
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.