WorldFloraDB - Telopea truncata

Characteristics

Shrubs to 3 m tall or, rarely, trees to 8 m, multi-stemmed, much-branched, densely rusty-sericeous to glabrescent on axes, bracts and beneath leaves. Adult leaves narrowly obovate to narrowly spathulate, 3-14 cm long, 5-22 mm wide, coriaceous, entire; margins recurved; apices acute or obtuse; upper surface without prominent veins, obscurely granulate. Intermediate leaves irregularly lobed, pinnatifid. Conflorescences many, depressed-obovoid, 10-35-flowered, 3.5-6 cm diam.; anthesis basipetal; involucral bracts inconspicuous, mostly 10-25 mm long, reddish and/or green, ferruginous-hairy outside. Flowers usually scarlet to crimson; pedicels 5-30 mm long; tepals 15-40 mm long, separating from base; style inflexed. Body of follicle 3.5-6.5 cm long.

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An upright shrub. It can grow 1-3 m tall. The leaves occur at right angles to the stem. The leaves are sword shaped and widest away from the stem. The leaves are 6-12 cm long. The leaves are dark green. The lower leaf surface is paler than the upper surface. The flowers are at the ends of the branches. The flowers are in a half round shape and large. They are usually red but can be yellow. The fruit is a dark brown pod-like follicle. The seeds are in rows and have wings.

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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in lower mountain regions in Tasmania. It needs well-drained but well-watered soil. Arboretum Tasmania.

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Occurs in montane and subalpine regions, in wet eucalypt forest or heath, at 600-1200 m alt.

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:706841-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000454305
COL ID	558S4
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Telopea truncata Telopea tasmaniana Hylogyne truncata Embothrium truncatum

WorldFloraDB 2024

Telopea truncata R.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Telopea