#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: - This will be a slowly evolving thread briefly looking at each genus in the family #Proteaceae in alphabetical order. For each genus I'll put up representative photos (if I have them) and I invite you to post yours as well #lockdownlearning

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: ACIDONIA. There is a single species in this genus - Acidonia microcarpa (syn. Persoonia microcarpa http://R.Br .), a shrub from the south-west of Western Australia.

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: BANKSIA! c.170 species ranging from small prostrate shrubs to tall trees. All endemic to Australia except Banksia dentata which went troppo and extends into the Aru Islands and New Guinea

Images:
B. menziesii
B. lemanniana
B. coccinea

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: DRYANDRA. 90+ species of shrubs and trees from the south-west of WA that were merged into BANKSIA in 2007

Images:
B. formosa (showy dryandra), Torndirrup NP
B. carlinoides (pink dryandra), Badgingarra
B. nobilis (golden dryandra), Boyagin NR

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: ADENANTHOS. An Australian genus of 30+ species of shrubs and small trees, most of which are found in WA, the exceptions being A. macropodianus (Kangaroo Island glandflower) from SA and A. terminalis (gland flower) from SA +VIC. (1/2)

Here are three species of Adenanthos in WA: A. sericeus (woolly bush) near Albany and A. obovatus (basket flower) and A. mieisneri near Busselton. (2/2)

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: CONOSPERMUM. The smokebushes - a genus endemic to Australia with about 50 species

Here's three species from WA:
C. nervosum at Badgingarra National Park
C. acerosum (needle-leaved smokebush ) in Whicher National Park
C. filifolium at Boyagin Nature Reserve

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: FLOYDIA. A single species - Floydia praealta - known as the ball nut or possum nut, A rainforest tree from northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: HAKEA. Genus comprising about 150 species found throughout Australia

- Hakea victoria in Fitzgerald River National Park in WA
- Hakea gilbertii near Badgingarra,WA
- Hakea bakeriana, from the Central Coast, NSW

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: ALLOXYLON. This is a genus of 4 species of trees from eastern Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Image is Alloxylon flammeum, the Queensland tree waratah.

#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: GREVILLEA. Now here's a fair dinkum genus - 360 species, the vast majority from Australia but also found in Indonesia, PNG and New Caledonia

-G. alpina (cat's claw) - Glenylon, Victoria
-G. insignis (wax grevillea) - Tarin Rock,WA
-G. dielsiana, from WA