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Allocasuarina scleroclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to areas along the south coast of Western Australia. It is a straggly, dioecious shrub that has branchlets up to 230 mm (9.1 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of ten or eleven, the mature fruiting cones 18–25 mm (0.71–0.98 in) long containing winged seeds 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long.
Allocasuarina scleroclada grows in scrub and low woodland, on rocky hillsides and on limestone shelves near the sea. It occurs in scattered places along the coast of Western Australia between Borden and the western part of the Great Australian Bight in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.
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 scleroclada 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.
