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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Casuarinaceae
Allocasuarina pusilla

Citation: L. Johnson, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 6:77 (1982).

Synonymy: Casuarina pusilla Macklin, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 51:272 (1927).

Common name: Dwarf sheoak.

Description:
Dioecious shrub 25 cm to 1 m high; articles terete, smooth, 3-9 mm long, 0.5-1 mm diam.; phyllichnia slightly convex (occasionally with a slight central depression when dry), glaucescent; teeth 5-7, pale, erect, 0.3-0.5 mm long, overlapping at their bases.

Male spikes 0.8-2 cm long, slender, 9-10 whorls per cm; bracteoles persistent; anthers red-brown, 0.6-1 mm long.

Cone sessile, subglobular or short-cylindrical, 1-1.5 cm long, 10-13 mm diam.; fruiting bracteoles broadly acute, with a conspicuous broad (acute when dry) dorsal protuberance about one-half to two-thirds as long as the bracteole.

image of FSA1_Allocasuarina_pus.jpg
Image source: fig 56a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 148.

Distribution:  In heath on sandy soils.

S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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