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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Casuarinaceae
Allocasuarina striata

Citation: L. Johnson, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 6:78 (1982).

Synonymy: Casuarina striata Macklin, Trans. R.Soc. S. Aust. 51:267 (1927).

Common name: None

Description:
Dioecious or monoecious shrub or small tree 1.5-4 m high; articles terete, smooth, striate, 0.8-2 cm long, 0.8-1.4 mm diam.; phyllichnia slightly convex, often with a yellowish midline; teeth 5-7, erect, 0.6-1.8 mm long.

Male spikes 1-3 cm long, slender, 5-7 whorls per cm; bracteoles deciduous; anthers yellow-brown, 0.7-1.3 mm long.

Cone on a peduncle 3-12 mm long, cylindrical, 1.8-3.3 cm long, 11-17 mm diam.; fruiting bracteoles obtuse, with a broad acute dorsal protuberance considerably shorter than the bracteole.

image of FSA1_Allocasuarina_str.jpg
Image source: fig 56c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In heath on lateritic or sandy soils.

S.Aust.: SL, KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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