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Little Wheelbush

Stenocarpus cunninghamii

Little Wheelbush
Photo: John Wrigley, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
N. Australia

About

Stenocarpus cunninghamii, commonly known as little wheel bush, 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.

Where it grows

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.

Other Stenocarpus plants

Stenocarpus acacioides · Stenocarpus angustifolius · Giant-leaved Stenocarpus · Stenocarpus davallioides · Stenocarpus dumbeensis · Stenocarpus heterophyllus · Stenocarpus moorei · Stenocarpus reticulatus · Killarney Beefwood · Firewheel tree · Stenocarpus trinervis · Stenocarpus umbelliferus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stenocarpus cunninghamii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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