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Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson separated out many of those species and renamed them into the new genera of Gymnostoma in 1980 and 1982, [3] [4] Allocasuarina in 1982, [4] and Ceuthostoma in 1988, with some additional formal descriptions of new species in each other genus. [5] At the time, it was somewhat controversial.
The genera Allocasuarina was created out of a grouping of plants formerly placed in Casuarina, because of subtle but consistent differences – Casuarina species have 6 to 20 scale-like teeth in each whorl of leaves, their samaras are grey or yellowish-brown, and the bracteoles of the fruiting cones are thin, woody and extend well beyond the ...
Allocasuarina striata, commonly known as the small bull oak, [1] stalked oak-bush [2] or the tall oak-bush, is a shrub of the genus Allocasuarina native to South Australia. [ 3 ] Description
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Immature female cones. Allocasuarina paradoxa is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Victoria.It is a dioecious or monoecious shrub that has branchlets up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to eleven, the fruiting cones 13–25 mm (0.51–0.98 in) long containing winged seeds 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long.
Allocasuarina muelleriana is dioecious, rarely a monoecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–4 m (1 ft 8 in – 13 ft 1 in) high and has smooth bark. . Its branchlets are more or less erect and up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth 0.3–0.6 mm (0.012–0.024 in) long, arranged in whorls of five to eight around the branchle
Allocasuarina media is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to a small area of Victoria.It is a dioecious, rarely a monoecious shrub that has more or less erect branchlets up to 200 mm (7.9 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of six to eight, the fruiting cones usually 14–27 mm (0.55–1.06 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 5–8 mm (0 ...
Allocasuarina ophiolitica is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to a small area of eastern New South Wales. It is a dioecious shrub with branchlets up to 190 mm (7.5 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to nine, the fruiting cones 9–20 mm (0.35–0.79 in) long containing winged seeds 3 ...