Protea
Genus in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection
Distribution
![Protea (rights holder: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings)](https://content.eol.org/data/media/9d/d0/65/851.120710-1_jpg.jpg)
Sugarbushes
Erect or prostrate suffrutices, shrubs or trees, up to 8 m. Leaves alternate or clustered near the ends of the branches simple, entire. Flowers in dense heads, surrounded by a conspicuous many-seriate involucre of bracts; bracts spirally arranged, very small in the outer series to as large as the flowers in the inner, sometimes brightly coloured. Style terminated by a linear pollen-presenter. Frui... © Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)
See more in the Encyclopedia of Life... Definition
- Parent Taxon
- Proteaceae
- Taxonomic Completion
3.96%
4 of 101 accepted Species- Global Pollen Project UUID
- c7606dcf-1e03-415c-83fe-a1b023882186
- Botanical Reference
- None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources
This taxon is currently linked to the following locations.
The Plant ListGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility