In Australia ten species are known growing naturally in rainforests of eastern New South Wales and Queensland and in the northern monsoonal forests of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Two of these eastern Australia species also grow naturally in New Guinea and one in the Aru Islands, Moluccas.
The greatest species diversity occurs in New Caledonia, where twelve endemic species are known.
By far the most well known in Australia is Stenocarpus sinuatus, the Queensland Firewheel Tree, which is commonly used as a street or garden tree on the east coast.
Stenocarpus sinuatus juvenile firewheel tree
Species
This listing was sourced from the Australian Plant Name Index, the Checklist of the Vascular Indigenous Flora of New Caledonia the Census of Vascular Plants of Papua New Guinea, the Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea, the Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances and the Flora of Australia (series).
Stenocarpus acacioides F.Muell. – NT, WA, Australia
Stenocarpus angustifolius C.T.White – Qld, Australia
Stenocarpus comptonii S.Moore – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus cryptocarpus Foreman & B.Hyland, Giant-leaved Stenocarpus – Qld, Australia
Stenocarpus cunninghamii R.Br. – Qld, NT, WA, Australia
Stenocarpus davallioides Foreman & B.Hyland – Qld, Australia
Stenocarpus dumbeensis Guillaumin – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus gracilis Brongn. & Gris – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus heterophyllus Brongn. & Gris – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus intermedius Brongn. & Gris – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus milnei Hook. & Arn. – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus phyllodineus S.Moore – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus reticulatus C.T.White – Qld, Australia
Stenocarpus rubiginosus Brongn. & Gris – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus sinuatus (A.Cunn.) Endl., Firewheel Tree – eastern NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea
Stenocarpus tremuloides Brongn. & Gris – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus trinervis (Montrouz.) Guillaumin – New Caledonia endemic
var. paradoxus Virot – New Caledonia endemic
var. trinervis – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus umbelliferus (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Schltr. – New Caledonia endemic
var. billardieri (Brongn. & Gris) Guillaumin – New Caledonia endemic
var. umbelliferus – New Caledonia endemic
Stenocarpus verticis Foreman – NT, Australia, New Guinea
Stenocarpus villosus Brongn. & Gris – New Caledonia endemic
Species provisionally named, described and accepted according to the authoritative Australian Plant Name Index as of June 2014 while awaiting formal publication
Stenocarpus sp. Hinchinbrook Is. (F.D.Hocking AQ229860) – Qld, Australia
