sentences:  The same Japanese name for this species, also means the whole genus and the entire Proteaceae plant family.In the New Guinea and southern China centres of species diversity, many species grow in forests, up to as tall as the sub-canopy, especially diverse in rainforests.In Australia, they are generally components of rainforests, and prefer richer soils, especially in the farthest south region of "Helicia"'s global distribution, the Illawarra, New South Wales, south of Sydney, where only one species "H. glabriflora" occurs, preferring richer basalt soils.