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Allocasuarina, commonly known as sheoak [4] or she-oak, [5] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Allocasuarina are trees or shrubs with soft, pendulous, green branchlets, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth.
Allocasuarina media is a dioecious, or rarely a monoecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) and has smooth bark. Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to 200 mm (7.9 in) long, the leaves reduced to erect or slightly spreading, scale-like teeth about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long, arranged in whorls of six to eight around the branchlets.
Allocasuarina distyla, commonly known as scrub she-oak, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a dioecious shrub that has branchlets up to 350 mm (14 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of six to eight, the fruiting cones 13–35 mm (0.51–1.38 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 4.0–8.0 mm ...
Allocasuarina grampiana is a dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–4 m (3 ft 3 in – 13 ft 1 in) and has smooth bark. Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long, the leaves reduced to erect to slightly spreading, scale-like teeth 0.4–0.8 mm (0.016–0.031 in) long, arranged in whorls of six or seven around the branchlets.
Habit on Mount Coolum. Allocasuarina thalassoscopica is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a spreading to erect, dioecious shrub that has branchlets up to 180 mm (7.1 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of five to seven, the fruiting cones 12–28 mm (0.47–1.10 in) long containing winged seeds 4.0–8.0 mm (0.16 ...
Allocasuarina hystricosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dioecious shrub with more or less erect branchlets, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of ten to twelve, the fruiting cones 13–30 mm (0.51–1.18 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 4.5–9 mm (0.18–0.35 in) long.
Male spikes Male cone. Allocasuarina zephyrea is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a dioecious shrub that has branchlets up to 190 mm (7.5 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to nine or ten, the fruiting cones 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long containing winged seeds 4.0–5.5 mm (0.16–0.22 in) long.
Allocasuarina spinosissima is a monoecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 2–4 m (6 ft 7 in – 13 ft 1 in). Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to 260 mm (10 in) long, the leaves reduced to overlapping scale-like teeth 0.5–1.0 mm (0.020–0.039 in) long, arranged in whorls of nine to eleven around the needle-like branchlets.