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Allocasuarina rupicola

Allocasuarina rupicola
Photo: Ian McMaster, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Casuarinaceae (Casuarin family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Allocasuarina rupicola, commonly known as shrubby she-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of eastern Australia. It is a slender, dioecious shrub that has branchlets up to 180 mm (7.1 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven or eight, the fruiting cones 6–19 mm (0.24–0.75 in) long containing winged seeds 2.8–5.0 mm (0.11–0.20 in) long.

Where it grows

Shrubby she-oak is found among clefts in granite on the slopes of mountains and near creeks between Wyberba in south-eastern Queensland, and Boonoo Boonoo National Park in north eastern New South Wales.

Other Allocasuarina plants

Allocasuarina acuaria · Allocasuarina acutivalvis · Allocasuarina anfractuosa · Allocasuarina brachystachya · Allocasuarina campestris · Allocasuarina corniculata · Allocasuarina crassa · Desert oak · Karri Oak · Dwarf Heath Casuarina · Allocasuarina dielsiana · Allocasuarina diminuta

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allocasuarina rupicola 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.

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