Allocasuarina paludosa
Swamp She-oak
Swamp She-oak
From: Flora of Australia
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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in 1826 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel who gave it the name Casuarina paludosa in Systema Vegetabilium, from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber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
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