Prostrate to erect shrubs, or short to tall trees, sometimes lignotuberous, usually with short, 3-celled hairs, occasionally with glandular hairs. Clusters of short, lateral roots ('proteoid roots') often produced. Leaves alternate, less commonly opposite or whorled, simple, pinnatifid, pinnate or bipinnate, rarely palmate, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. Inflorescence simple or compound, axillary or terminal, racemose, paniculate or condensed (corymbose, capitate or cone-like). Flowers zygomorphic or actinomorphic, usually bisexual, solitary or paired in the axils of bracts, rarely ebracteate. Perianth of 4 valvate, free or variously united tepals; each with a slightly expanded limb. Stamens 4, usually all fertile, opposite tepals; filaments partly or wholly adnate to tepals, rarely free. Hypogynous glands usually present, (2–) 4, scale-like or fleshy, free or fused. Gynoecium of 1 carpel. Ovary usually superior, rarely perigynous, sessile or stipitate, 1-locular; ovules l to many, variously inserted; style simple, often persistent, often with the apex expanded as a pollen presenter; stigma small, terminal or subterminal. Fruit dehiscent, tardily dehiscent or indehiscent, a woody or coriaceous follicle, an achene, nut or a succulent or non-succulent drupe. Seeds 1 to many, sometimes winged, usually endospermic. source: ABRS Flora of Australia Online
| Testing – Mr. Stewart’s familiar listing |
| Accepted name | Source |
|---|---|
| Proteaceae |
| Synonyms | Source |
|---|---|
| Proteae orth. var. Juss. | |
| Published in: Jussieu, A.L. de 1789, Genera Plantarum | |
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