Stenocarpus cunninghamii

Stenocarpus cunninghamii, commonly known as little wheel bush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with simple, narrow elliptic or lance-shaped adult leaves, groups of pale yellow or white flowers and woody, linear follicles.

Little wheel bush
In Kakadu National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Stenocarpus
Species:
S. cunninghamii
Binomial name
Stenocarpus cunninghamii
Synonyms[1]

Cybele cunninghamii (R.Br.) Kuntze

Description

Stenocarpus cunninghamii is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 1–12 m (3 ft 3 in – 39 ft 4 in), with a dbh of up to 30 cm (12 in). The adult leaves are narrow elliptic or narrow lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 25–110 mm (0.98–4.33 in) long and 4–18 mm (0.16–0.71 in) wide on a petiole 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long. Juvenile leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped in outline and lobed or deeply bipinnately-lobed. The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils with 14 to 21 flowers on a peduncle 3–19 mm (0.12–0.75 in) long, the individual flowers pale yellow to white and 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long, each on a pedicel 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long. Flowering occurs from March to May and the fruit is a woody, linear follicle 40–60 mm (1.6–2.4 in) long, containing winged seeds.[2][3][4][5]

Taxonomy

Stenocarpus cunninghamii was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in an addendum to the Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae.[6][7] The specific epithet (cunninghamii) honours the botanical collector Allan Cunningham.[8]

Distribution and habitat

Little wheel bush usually grows in narrow sandstone gorges and in forest and dry scrub from the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia to near Wadeye in the Northern Territory and on Cape York Peninsula.[3][4][5]

References
  1. "Stenocarpus cunninghamii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  2. "Stenocarpus cunninghamii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. "Stenocarpus cunninghamii". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. Frank Zich; Bernie Hyland; Trevor Whiffen; Raelee Kerrigan (2020). "Stenocarpus cunninghamii". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  5. "Stenocarpus cunninghamii". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  6. "Stenocarpus cunninghamii". APNI. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  7. Brown, Robert (1830). Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae. p. 34. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  8. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 175. ISBN 9780958034180.
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