Allocasuarina emuina

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Common name:               Emu Mountain She-oak 

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

Fruit:                         

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

Roots:         

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

Sources of information:

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