Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Allocasuarina distyla
Common name
Scrub She-oak
Family
Casuarinaceae
Where found
Heath on sandstone hillsides. Ranges and tablelands. Coastal north from Ulladulla
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Bark mainly smooth. Branchlets to 35 cm long; articles occasionally waxy, 10–20 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm in diameter; ridges angular to rounded-convex. Leaves very small, forming whorls of teeth on the branchlets. Teeth 6–8, erect, slightly overlapping at least when young, occasionally withering. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Male flowers brown, in spikes, female flowers red, in tight clusters, appearing single. Male spikes 1–9 cm long and with 4.5–6.5 whorls of flowers per cm of spike length. Mature cones often with a sterile tips to 12 mm long, cone body 13–50 mm long; bracteoles thickly woody and convex, blunt to squared off. Mature 'seeds' 4–8 mm long, with one wing, very dark brown to black, shining.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Allocasuarina~distyla (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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