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Allocasuarina diminuta is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a dioecious or monoecious shrub or small tree that has branchlets up to 230 mm (9.1 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of six to ten, the fruiting cones 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 3.5–5.0 mm (0.14–0.20 in) long.
This allocasuarina grows in heath or low open woodlands, on sandstone ridges and hillsides in New South Wales. Subspecies annectens occurs between Sassafras, Braidwood and Lake Bathurst with a disjunct population south-west of Eden. Subspecies diminuta is found on the western slopes and nearby plains between Temora
Allocasuarina acuaria · Allocasuarina acutivalvis · Allocasuarina anfractuosa · Allocasuarina brachystachya · Allocasuarina campestris · Allocasuarina corniculata · Allocasuarina crassa · Desert oak · Karri Oak · Dwarf Heath Casuarina · Allocasuarina dielsiana · Scrub She Oak
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allocasuarina diminuta 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.
