family proteaceae

1. Large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers;
   Constitutes the order Proteales (synset 112234152)
   is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   member holonym:

   • bartle frere, genus bartle-frere, green dinosaur - a living fossil or so-called `green dinosaur'; genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially named
   • genus protea - type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs
   • genus banksia - important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers
   • conospermum, genus conospermum - Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush
   • embothrium, genus embothrium - small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters
   • genus guevina, guevina - one species: Chilean nut
   • genus grevillea - large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers
   • genus hakea, hakea - Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers
   • genus knightia, knightia - small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia
   • genus lambertia, lambertia - small genus of Australian shrubs
   • genus leucadendron, leucadendron - large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts
   • genus lomatia - small genus of low-growing evergreens of Chile and Australia; some yield dyes
   • genus macadamia - trees or shrubs; Madagascar to Australia
   • genus orites, orites - small genus of Australian shrubs or trees
   • genus persoonia, persoonia - Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs
   • genus stenocarpus, stenocarpus - small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia
   • genus telopea, telopea - Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs
   • genus xylomelum, xylomelum - small species of Australian trees or shrubs; grown for their fruit and flowers
   belongs to: order proteales, proteales - coextensive with the family Proteaceae
   same as: protea family, proteaceae

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