Stenocarpus reticulatus
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| Black silky oak | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Stenocarpus |
| Species: | S. reticulatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenocarpus reticulatus | |
Stenocarpus reticulatus, commonly known as black silky oak,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north Queensland. It is a tree with simple leaves, groups of strongly-perfumed, creamy-white flowers and flattened, semi-circular follicles.
Stenocarpus reticulatus is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 35 m (115 ft) with its branchlets covered with tiny hairs when young. The leaves are lance-shaped to elliptical, 50–170 mm (2.0–6.7 in) long and 20–58 mm (0.79–2.28 in) wide on a petiole up to 18 mm (0.71 in) long. The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils with mostly eleven to fifteen flowers on a peduncle 20–32 mm (0.79–1.26 in) long, the individual flowers creamy-white and about 20 mm (0.79 in) long, each on a pedicel 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long. Flowering occurs from February to August and the fruit is a flattened, semi-circular follicle up to 85 mm (3.3 in) long, containing up to thirty winged seeds.[2][3]