Allocasuarina nana

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

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

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Plant  information

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

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

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