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Allocasuarina defungens
Also called Nabiac She Oak
Allocasuarina defungens, commonly known as dwarf heath casuarina, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a straggly, dioecious or monoecious shrub that has branchlets up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of five to seven, the fruiting cones 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) about 3 mm (0.12 in) long.
Dwarf heath casuarina mainly grows in tall heath in coastal areas between Raymond Terrace and Byron Bay in eastern New South Wales.
Allocasuarina acuaria · Allocasuarina acutivalvis · Allocasuarina anfractuosa · Allocasuarina brachystachya · Allocasuarina campestris · Allocasuarina corniculata · Allocasuarina crassa · Desert oak · Karri Oak · Allocasuarina dielsiana · Allocasuarina diminuta · Scrub She Oak
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allocasuarina defungens 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.
