Allocasuarina crassa

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids  > Fagales > Casuarinaceae > Allocasuarina  crassa

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Plant  information

Common name:         Cape Pillar She-oak  

Conservation status: Rare

• The species is listed as rare under the Tasmanian TSP Act

• The main threat is inappropriate fire regimes

• It is also sensitive to the introduced soil-borne pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi

Etymology:   

Flowers

• It is probably wind-pollinated

Fruit:                            

Leaves:         

• Its articles are 10–26 mm long and 1.2–4 mm in diameter

• With densely pubescent furrows and, usually, from 6 to 9 teeth

Stem & branches: 

• The bark is smooth when young, becoming flaky with age

Roots:         

Habit:        

• It may vary in form from a prostrate shrub to a tree growing up to 14 m high

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Habitat:   

• It grows on dolerite soils in both wet eucalypt forest and in coastal heath and shrubland

• On the Cape Pillar plateau it may occur in pure, even-age stands after a long fire-free period

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Tasmania

• The tree is restricted to the Cape Pillar area of the Tasman Peninsula and Tasman Island

• Both of which are in the Tasman National Park where there are about 100,000 mature individuals

• It has a linear extent of distribution of 10 km with an area of about 20 km^2

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

•  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocasuarina_crassa (2023)