Stenocarpus angustifolius


Stenocarpus angustifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, groups of creamy white flowers and cylindrical follicles.

Description

Stenocarpus angustifolius is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of and has minutely hairy young branchlets that soon become glabrous. The adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped, long and up to wide on a petiole up to long. Juvenile leaves are deeply divided with narrow linear lobes. The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils with 12 to 20 flowers on a peduncle long, the individual flowers creamy-white and up to long, each on a pedicel up to long. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is a cylindrical follicle up to long, containing winged seeds long.

Taxonomy

Stenocarpus angustifolius was first formally described in 1919 by Cyril Tenison White in the Botany Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Queensland from specimens collected near Stannary Hills by Thomas Lane Bancroft. The specific epithet means "narrow-leaved".

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in woodland and near watercourses in the ranges between Mingela and the Atherton Tableland in north Queensland.