Allocasuarina zephyrea

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

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

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Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (zephyrea) means "west wind", referring to the species' occurrence on the western side of Tasmania

Flowers

• Male flowers are arranged in spikes 10–35 mm long, with 5 to 7 whorls per cm, the anthers 0.7–0.9 mm long

Fruit:                            

• Female cones are on a peduncle 2–15 mm long, and mature cones 10–25 mm long and 6–11 mm in diameter, containing black, winged seeds 4.0–5.5 mm long

Leaves:         

Stem & branches: 

• Its branchlets are up to 190 mm long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth 0.4–1.2 mm long, arranged in whorls of seven to nine or ten around the branchlets

• The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls are 4–15 mm long, 0.6–1.3 mm wide

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–2 m 

Habitat:   

• Growing in woodland, heath, sedgeland and on rocky outcrops 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Tasmania

• From the western lowlands to central and south-eastern highlands, as well as on King Island

Additional notes:     

• This allocasuarina is similar to A. grampiana

• Taxonomy

  • Allocasuarina zephyrea was first formally described in 1989 by the botanist Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in the Flora of Australia at Ocean Beach near Strahan in 1949

Sources of information:

•  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocasuarina_zephyrea (August 2024)