#family_Proteaceae__Proteaceae__protea_family  large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales
  supertype:  dicot_family__dicotfamily__magnoliopsid_family  family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
  member of:  order_Proteales
  member:  Bartle_Frere__genus_Bartle-Frere__green_dinosaur__greendinosaur  a living fossil or so-called "green dinosaur": genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially named
  member:  genus_Protea  type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs
     member:  protea  any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones
     member:  honeypot__king_protea__Protea_cynaroides  South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup- or goblet-shaped resembling globe artichokes
     member:  Protea_mellifera__honeyflower  Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously
  member:  genus_Banksia  important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers
     member:  banksia  any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds
  member:  genus_Conospermum__Conospermum  Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush
     member:  smoke_bush__smokebush  any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers
  member:  genus_Embothrium__Embothrium  small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters
     member:  Chilean_firebush__Chilean_flameflower__Embothrium_coccineum  grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes
  member:  genus_Guevina__Guevina  1 species: Chilean nut
     member:  Chilean_nut__Chile_nut__Chile_hazel__Chilean_hazelnut__Guevina_heterophylla__Guevina_avellana  Chilean shrub bearing coral-red fruit with an edible seed resembling a hazelnut
  member:  genus_Grevillea  large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers
     member:  grevillea  any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea
     member:  silk_oak  any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering
     member:  silver_oak__Grevillela_parallela  small slender tree with usually entire gray-green pendulous leaves and white or cream flowers; northern Australia
     member:  silky_oak__silkyoak__Grevillea_robusta  medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia
  member:  genus_Hakea__Hakea  Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers
     member:  cushion_flower__cushionflower__pincushion_hakea__Hakea_laurina  tall straggling shrub with large globose crimson-yellow flowers; western Australia
     member:  needlewood__needle_wood__Hakea_leucoptera  large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia
     member:  needlebush__needle_bush__Hakea_lissosperma  shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia
  member:  genus_Knightia__Knightia  small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia
     member:  rewa-rewa__New-Zealand_honeysuckle  slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber
  member:  genus_Lambertia__Lambertia  small genus of Australian shrubs
     member:  honeyflower__mountain_devil__Lambertia_formosa  erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar
  member:  genus_Leucadendron__Leucadendron  large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts
     member:  silver_tree__Leucadendron_argenteum  small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage
  member:  genus_Lomatia  small genus of low-growing evergreens of Chile and Australia; some yield dyes
     member:  lomatia  any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers
  member:  genus_Macadamia  trees or shrubs; madagascar to Australia
     member:  macadamia_tree__macadamiatree__macadamia  any tree of the genus Macadamia
     member:  Macadamia_integrifolia  medium-sized tree of eastern Australia having creamy-white flowers
     member:  macadamia_nut_tree__macadamianuttree__macadamia_nut__macadamianut__Macadamia_ternifolia  small Australian tree with racemes of pink flowers; widely cultivated (especially in Hawaii) for its sweet edible nuts
     member:  Queensland_nut__Macadamia_tetraphylla  bushy tree with pink to purple flowers
  member:  genus_Orites__Orites  small genus of Australian shrubs or trees
     member:  Orites_excelsa__prickly_ash__pricklyash  Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
  member:  genus_Persoonia__Persoonia  Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs
     member:  geebung  any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits
  member:  genus_Stenocarpus__Stenocarpus  small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia
     member:  wheel_tree__wheeltree__firewheel_tree__firewheeltree__Stenocarpus_sinuatus  eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers
     member:  scrub_beefwood__scrubbeefwood__beefwood__Stenocarpus_salignus  tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
  member:  genus_Telopea__Telopea  Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs
     member:  Telopea_Oreades__waratah  tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
     member:  waratah__Telopea_speciosissima  straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
  member:  genus_Xylomelum__Xylomelum  small species of Australian trees or shrubs; grown for their fruit and flowers
     member:  native_pear__woody_pear__woodypear__Xylomelum_pyriforme  tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp

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