Stenocarpus angustifolius

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Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (angustifolius) means "narrow-leaved"

Flowers

• The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils with 12 to 20 flowers on a peduncle 20–40 mm long

• The individual flowers creamy-white and up to 10 mm long, each on a pedicel up to 12 mm long

• Flowering occurs from August to December

Fruit:                            

• The fruit is a cylindrical follicle up to 100 mm long, containing winged seeds 15–20 mm long

Leaves:         

• The adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped, 50–180 mm long and up to 12 mm wide on a petiole up to 10 mm long

• Juvenile leaves are deeply divided with narrow linear lobes

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of 4–5 m and has minutely hairy young branchlets that soon become glabrous

Habitat:   

• Woodland and near watercourses

Distribution:                  

•  In the ranges between Mingela and the Atherton Tableland in north Queensland

Additional notes:     

• 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

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenocarpus_angustifolius (2023)