Allocasuarina inophloia

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Common name:               Woolly Oak 

• Also, stringybark she-oak  

Conservation status:   . . .

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• It is dioecious

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

•  Like all she-oaks, its foliage is composed of segmented branchlets with segments known as articles (a segment of a jointed stem)

• Its leaves reduced to tiny scales between them

Stem & branches:    

• The hairy bark is an unusual feature

Roots:         

Habit:        

• It is a shrub or small tree 

• It grows as a small tree with an open habit ranging from 3 to 10 m high

• It is found in woodland on sandstone, ironstone or laterite ridges

• Associated species include grasstrees (Xanthorrhoea) and eucalypts, such as drooping ironbark (Eucalyptus caleyi)

• Northwest of Glen Innes it is found in tall scrub on granitic soil uplands with other dominant species such as the she-oak species Allocasuarina brachystachya, wattle species Acacia williamsiana and the endangered Severn River heath-myrtle (Micromyrtus grandis) and understory shrubs such as Leucopogon neo-anglicus and fringe myrtle (Calytrix tetragona)

Habitat:   

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to inland NSW and Queensland

• In NSW it occurs in areas such as the Clarence River valley, Emmaville, Yetman, south to Waralda

• While it ranges in Queensland north to Herberton

Additional notes:     

• It has been recorded as a host plant for the orange mistletoe (Dendrophthoe glabrescens)

• Taxonomy

  • First collected near Roma in central Queensland, the it was described by Ferdinand von Mueller and Frederick Manson Bailey in 1882 as Casuarina inophloia

  • Exactly 100 years later, Lawrie Johnson moved it to its current genus Allocasuarina in his revision of the she-oaks

• Cultivation

  • Its shaggy bark gives the species its horticultural potential

  • It is frost hardy and able to tolerate poor soils

Sources of information:

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