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In Australia, the most widely used common name for Casuarinaceae species is sheoak or she-oak (a comparison of the timber quality with English oak). Other common names in Australia include ironwood, bull-oak or buloke, beefwood, [8] or cassowary tree. [9] The Shire of Buloke in Victoria, Australia, is named after the species Allocasuarina ...
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 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. ...
The genus Casuarina was first formally described in 1759 by Carl Linnaeus in Amoenitates Academicae and the first species he described (the type species) was Casuarina equisetifolia. [ 2 ] [ 18 ] The generic name is derived from the Malay word for the cassowary , kasuari , alluding to the similarities between the bird's feathers and the plant's ...
Bentham gave it the name Casuarina decussata. [5] [6] In 1982, Lawrie Johnson moved it to its current genus Allocasuarina in his revision of the she-oaks. [7] It is closely related to A. torulosa of New South Wales and Queensland. [2] The specific epithet decussata is a Latin word meaning 'like the letter X' or 'the Roman numeral ten'. [8]
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
Allocasuarina tortiramula is a dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in). Its branchlets are spreading and twisted, up to about 100 mm (3.9 in) long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth arranged in whorls of seven, around the branchlets.
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.