genus stenocarpus
Noun
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Small genus of timber trees;
Australia to Malaysia (synset 112243232)is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationmember holonym:- firewheel tree, stenocarpus sinuatus, wheel tree - eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers
- beefwood, scrub beefwood, stenocarpus salignus - tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
belongs to: family proteaceae, protea family, proteaceae - large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Protealessame as: stenocarpus
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