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PROTEACEAE 
Evergreen shrubs or trees. Stipules absent. Leaves mostly alternate, simple, entire or variously 
lobed. Inflorescences basically racemose with flowers commonly in pairs. Flowers usually bisexual, 
strongly zygomorphic or actinomorphic, 4-merous. Perianth of 4 petaloid tepals, free, cohering into 
a tube or fused, sometimes arising from rim of hypanthium. Stamens 4; filaments partly or wholly 
fused to tepals. Hypogynous glands often present, usually 4, alternating with tepals. Ovary superior, 
1-carpellate, sometimes stipitate, 1-locular, ovules 1-2(many); style simple, commonly expanded 
below or around the small terminal to lateral stigma into a pollen presenter. Fruit a dehiscent woody 
to leathery follicle or a fleshy drupe. Seeds 1-many, often winged. Fig. 34 
A world-wide family of c. 80 genera and 1500 species; predominantly in the warmer regions of the southern 
hemisphere. In Australia about 50 genera and 900 species; 6 genera in the NT, all recorded in the DR. [Johnson 
& Briggs, 1975] 
inflorescence flower follicle seed seed 
Grevillea dryandri G. parallela Banksia dentata 
Fig. 34 
1. Flowers sessile, in dense cone-like inflorescences .........s.sssecssessesesecsssssessssseesesssesseseseseeeess Banksia 
1. Flowers pedicellate, not embedded in inflorescence aAXis 20.0... cseseseseeseeseeeereseseseeseneseeenens 2B 
2 Mame EQUI lesh yascrreseeeesssmtetticcsteststestrontivcesrtetetesierrecistcersiteesteanst estore pita reese eaten eee nee 3 
2m abtuit drysleathery,Or WOOdypescercnittecrsritrtscccsetisrterseiretiiricessss terserertipicecetirisreereritierriinerieees 4 
Bae rTulGpurplish dryins black traintorestamemtrss sessestesesseetttriteerteeeereeteree tieeteticett attire Helicia 
3. Fruit greenish yellow; open forest ; Persoonia 
4. Eruitilinears>30 mimilong tereievescsstrrtctrisereter pesestttersertrie terested emereerteerecnrta reeset Stenocarpus 
4. Fruit + ellipsoid or orbicular, mostly <30 mm long, rarely to 35 mm long 5 
S Sm THIEL Wit SOLIG IWOOUYaValVeSPrsterecttreettiserrersctrsreeereteresentserrretre teres: tereresersrsretterereeer sr steee 6 
Dees LIUIt, with thin CONCAVE Val VeStitecscttiscseettstreeert tiettsccteretreetionioctteteittenriotrersensestereerets Grevillea 
6. Leaves entire; seed winged at one end; inflorescence <50 mm JON ......cceseseseeeneeteeeteees Hakea 
6. Leaves deeply lobed; seed encircled by wing; 
INFOTESCENCES>JONMIOUION Sercrstiscsraccreetieee ner etirertreeret tetersve ht meee neeeen eeneenre ne Grevillea 
