Allocasuarina scleroclada

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Etymology:   

• The specific epithet, (scleroclada) means "hard branch"

Flowers

• Male flowers are arranged in spikes 6–16 mm long, the anthers 0.5–0.8 mm long

• Female cones are sessile and glabrous, the mature cones more or less cylindrical, 18–25 mm long and 13–19 mm in diameter, containing black, winged seeds 5–8 mm long

Fruit:                            

Leaves:         

• The leaves are arranged in whorls of ten or eleven around the branchlet

• The sections of branchlets supporting leaves are 20–52 mm long, 1.0–1.5 mm wide

Stem & branches: 

• Its branchlets are up to 230 mm long and drooping

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A straggly, dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m

Habitat:   

• Scrub and low woodland, on rocky hillsides and on limestone shelves near the sea

Distribution:                  

• It occurs in scattered places along the coast of Western Australia between Borden and the western part of the Great Australian Bight in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • This she-aok was first formally described in 1972 by Lawrie Johnson, who gave it the name Casuarina scleroclada in the journal Nuytsia, from specimens he collected near Caiguna in 1967

  • In 1982, Johnson transferred the species to Allocasuarina as A. scleroclada in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Sources of information:

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