Stenocarpus is a genus of around 25 species of woody trees or shrubs of the family Proteaceae

Proteaceae

Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...

, occurring in rainforests of Eastern and monsoonal areas of Northern and North-Western Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 (9 species) with 2 extending into New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

 and the Aru Islands

Aru Islands

The Aru Islands are a group of about ninety-five low-lying islands in the Maluku province of eastern Indonesia. They also form a regency of Indonesia.-Geography:...

, with the greatest diversity occurring in New Caledonia

New Caledonia

New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

, where the majority are found (12 species)..

By far the most well known in Australia is Stenocarpus sinuatus, the Queensland Firewheel Tree, which is commonly used as a street or garden tree on the East Coast.

Species

• Stenocarpus acacioides
• Stenocarpus angustifolius

• Stenocarpus comptonii - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus cryptocarpus
  Stenocarpus cryptocarpus
  Stenocarpus cryptocarpus, known as the Giant Leaf Stenocarpus, is a species of plant in the Proteaceae family. It is endemic to north Queensland, where it is restricted to the wet rainforest in the McDowell Ranges...
  
  (Giant-leaved stenocarpus)
• Stenocarpus cunninghamii
• Stenocarpus davallioides
• Stenocarpus dumbeensis
  Stenocarpus dumbeensis
  Stenocarpus dumbeensis was a species of plant in the Proteaceae family. It was endemic to New Caledonia.-Source:* Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus gracilis - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus heterophyllus
  Stenocarpus heterophyllus
  Stenocarpus heterophyllus is a species of plant in the Proteaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus intermedius - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus milnei- New Caledonia.
• Stenoarpus phyllodineus - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus reticulatus
• Stenocarpus rubiginosus - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus salignus
  Stenocarpus salignus
  Stenocarpus salignus, known as the Scrub Beefwood is an Australian rainforest tree in the Proteaceae family. Found in warmer rainforests on the coast and ranges. It is often found in warm temperate rainforest on poorer sedimentary soils, or on volcanic soils above 750 metres above sea level...
  
  (Scrub Beefwood)
• Stenocarpus sinuatus
  Stenocarpus sinuatus
  Stenocarpus sinuatus, known as the Firewheel Tree is an Australian rainforest tree in the Protea family. The range of natural distribution is in various rainforest types from the Nambucca River in New South Wales to the Atherton Tableland in tropical Queensland...
  
  (Firewheel Tree)
• Stenocarpus trinervis - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus tremuloides - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus umbelliferus
  Stenocarpus umbelliferus
  Stenocarpus umbelliferus is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. It has an prostrate or upright habit, growing up to 5 metres in height. Stems are flattened when young, later becoming rounded. The leaves are thick and leathery with a slightly wavy...
  
  - New Caledonia
• Stenocarpus verticis
• Stenocarpus villosus
  Stenocarpus villosus
  Stenocarpus villosus is a species of plant in the Proteaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  - New Caledonia