Allocasuarina paludosa

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Plant  information

Common name:             Swamp She-oak  

•  Also, scrub sheoak

Conservation status:   

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet, (paludosa) means "marshy, swampy or boggy"

Flowers:                  

• Male flowers are arranged in spikes 10–25 mm long, with 7 to 9 whorls per cm

• Anthers are 0.7–1.1 mm long

• Female cones are sessile or on a peduncle up to 2 mm  long

Fruit:                         

• The mature cones cylindrical to oval, 10–18 mm long and 7–13 mm in diameter 

• The winged seeds dark brown to black and 3.5–5.0 mm long

Leaves:         

• Leaves are reduced to erect or spreading, scale-like teeth 0.5–0.9 mm long, 

• Arranged in whorls of 6 to 8 around the branchlets

• The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls are 5–14 mm long and 0.7–1 mm (0.028–0.039 in) wide. 

Stem & branches:    

• Branchlets are more or less erect, up to 200 mm long,

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A spreading, monoecious or dioecious shrub 

• Typically grows to a height of 0.3–4 m

Habitat:   

• Heath and in poorly drained soils near swamps at the edge of woodland on the coast and nearby tablelands 

Distribution:                 

• Endemic to south-eastern continental Australia

• NSW south from Broken Bay, through southern Victoria to the far south-east of South Australia

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • This she-oak was first formally described in 1826 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel who gave it the name Casuarina paludosa in Systema Vegetabilium, from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber

  • In 1989 Lawrie Johnson transferred the species to the genus Allocasuarina as A. paludosa in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Sources of information:

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