Pyrogenic flowering

Pyrogenic flowering is the fire-stimulated flowering of plants in heathland and other fire-prone habitats. It is associated with species which have transient seed banks, as opposed to canopy or persistent soil seed banks. These species are mostly monocots, but it is also observed in several species of woody dicots.[1]

One of the most well known species to display this life cycle are those in the Waratah (Telopea) genus.[2] With Telopea speciosissima being the floral emblem of the Australian state of New South Wales.

References

1. Bradstock, Ross Andrew; et al. (2002). Flammable Australia: the fire regimes and biodiversity of a continent. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80591-0.
2. Seedling establishment in an pyrogenic flowering species: the role of time-since-fire, litter and post-dispersal seed predation By Andrew J Denham