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Allocasuarina spinosissima

Allocasuarina spinosissima
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Casuarinaceae (Casuarin family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Allocasuarina spinosissima is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a monoecious shrub with its leaves reduced to overlapping scales in whorls of nine to eleven, the mature fruiting cones 10–23 mm (0.39–0.91 in) long, containing winged seeds 5.5–7.0 mm (0.22–0.28 in) long.

Where it grows

Allocasuarina spinosissima grows in heath on sandplains and is widespread between Southern Cross, Norseman and Queen Victoria Spring in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee and Murchison Coastal Plain bioregions of Western Australia.

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 spinosissima 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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