Allocasuarina nana
Dwarf She-oak
Dwarf She-oak
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Common name: Dwarf she-oak
Conservation status: unknown
Etymology:
The specific epithet nana is from Latin, referring to the dwarf size of this small plant
Flowers:
A small, usually dioecious plant
Fruit:
The fruiting cones have a mostly smooth and tessellated surface
Around 20 mm long and 12 mm wide
Leaves:
Stem & branches:
Branchlets are very short, less than 8 cm long
Roots:
Habit:
The habit is a multi-stemmed spreading low shrub, forming in dense colonies
Often seen around 1 m tall
Habitat:
Heathland on exposed sandstone plateaux
Grows in exposed heathlands, ridges, clifftops on sandstone based soils
Distribution:
Found in eastern Australia
It is found on the coast and tablelands, south of the Cudgegong River near Mudgee
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