Stenocarpus

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Stenocarpus - small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia genus Stenocarpus dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination 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 Proteales 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 scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus, beefwood - tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood