genus Telopea

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genus Telopea - Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs Telopea 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 Telopea Oreades, waratah - tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes Telopea speciosissima, waratah - straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes