Allocasuarina emuina
Emu Mountain She-oak
Emu Mountain She-oak
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Overview:
Common name: Emu Mountain She-oak
Conservation status: unknown
Etymology:
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Leaves:
It has long wiry needle-like branchlets and their leaves are reduced to whorls of small triangular teeth which occur at regular intervals along the branchlets
The branchlets are up to 12 centimetres long and go up the branch
The leaves are yellow-green in colour and usually have 6–8 teeth
Stem & branches:
Has smooth bark
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Habit:
The shrub has a spreading habit that typically grows to a height have 0.5 to 2.5 m
Habitat:
Distribution:
Native to Queensland
It has a limited distribution through a small area of south west Queensland across a linear range of 55 km between Beerburrum and Noosa on the Sunshine Coast
There were four known population with an estimated total number of 12,000 individuals in 1993
Additional notes:
The species was first described by the botanist Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in 1989 in the work Casuarinaceae. Flora of Australia
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