Stenocarpus cunninghamii
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| Little wheel bush | |
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| In Kakadu National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Stenocarpus |
| Species: | S. cunninghamii |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenocarpus cunninghamii | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cybele cunninghamii (R.Br.) Kuntze | |
Stenocarpus cunninghamii, commonly known as little wheel bush,[2] 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.
Stenocarpus cunninghamii is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 1–12 m (3 ft 3 in – 39 ft 4 in), with a dbh of up to 30 cm (12 in). The adult leaves are narrow elliptic or narrow lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 25–110 mm (0.98–4.33 in) long and 4–18 mm (0.16–0.71 in) wide on a petiole 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long. Juvenile leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped in outline and lobed or deeply bipinnately-lobed. The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils with 14 to 21 flowers on a peduncle 3–19 mm (0.12–0.75 in) long, the individual flowers pale yellow to white and 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long, each on a pedicel 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long. Flowering occurs from March to May and the fruit is a woody, linear follicle 40–60 mm (1.6–2.4 in) long, containing winged seeds.[2][3][4][5]