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Allocasuarina brachystachya is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. It is an open, usually monoecious shrub that has branchlets up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of 5 to 7, the fruiting cones 7–14 mm (0.28–0.55 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 2.5–4 mm (0.098–0.157 in) long.
This sheoak grows in low open woodland between Emmaville, Guyra and Moredun, on the western edge of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.
Allocasuarina acuaria · Allocasuarina acutivalvis · Allocasuarina anfractuosa · Allocasuarina campestris · Allocasuarina corniculata · Allocasuarina crassa · Desert oak · Karri Oak · Dwarf Heath Casuarina · Allocasuarina dielsiana · Allocasuarina diminuta · Scrub She Oak
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allocasuarina brachystachya by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
