The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea, Hakea and Macadamia. Species such as the New South Wales waratah, king protea, and various species of Banksia, soman, and Leucadendron are popular cut flowers. The nuts of Macadamia integrifolia are widely grown commercially and consumed, as are those of Gevuina avellana on a smaller scale. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity.
Stirlingia, commonly known as blueboy, is a genus of 7 species in the family Proteaceae, all of which are endemic to Western Australia.
Stirlingia simplex is a plant endemic to Western Australia.
Stirlingia latifolia, commonly known as blueboy, is a plant endemic to Western Australia.
Grevillea eriostachya, also known as flame grevillea, orange grevillea, or honey grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to western parts of Australia. It is a shrub with a leafy base, mostly linear leaves and conical groups of bright yellow flowers on long canes above the foliage.
Cenarrhenes is a monytypic genus in the family Proteaceae containing the single species Cenarrhenes nitida, known as the Port Arthur plum or native plum. Cenarrhenes nitida is an evergreen shrub to small tree endemic to the rainforests and scrublands of western Tasmania. It bears white flowers in late spring followed by the development of fleshy fruit.
Persoonia striata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, often spreading shrub with hairy young branchlets, linear to spatula-shaped leaves, and bright yellow flowers borne in groups of up to five on a rachis up to 2 mm (0.079 in) long that continues to grow after flowering.
Grevillea pilulifera, commonly known as the woolly-flowered grevillea, is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia.
Stirlingia abrotanoides is a herb or shrub of the genus Stirlingia endemic to the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
Conospermum densiflorum, commonly known as crown smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum flexuosum, commonly known as the tangled smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum microflorum is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum polycephalum is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum quadripetalum is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum scaposum is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum spectabile is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum unilaterale is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Stirlingia anethifolia is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Stirlingia seselifolia is a herb or shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Stirlingia tenuifolia is a herb or shrub endemic to Western Australia.
