Allocasuarina acutivalvis

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Plant  information

Common name:               unknown  

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• It produces brown flowers

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

Stem & branches:     

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub or tree

• The dioecious shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 2.5 to 8 m

Habitat:   

• It is found in tall, open woodland and rocky hillsides

Distribution:                  

• Native to the Wheatbelt, Goldfields-Esperance and Mid West regions of Western Australia

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • The species was first formally described as Casuarina acutivalvis by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1867 in the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae

  • It was reclassified in 1982 into the genus Allocasuarina by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens