Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Allocasuarina littoralis
Common name
Black she-oak
Family
Casuarinaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, or occasionally tall heath, on sandy or otherwise poor soils. Occasionally in rocky places. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Tree to 15 m high. Bracteoles on cones sometimes sharp. Bark rough, fisssured. Branchlets to 35 cm long; articles 4–10 mm long, 0.4–1.0 mm in diameter, ridges angular or rounded-convex. Leaves very small, forming whorls of teeth on the branchlets. Teeth 5-9, erect or rarely spreading, not overlapping, usually withering. Male and female flowers usually on different plants, sometimes on the same plant. Male flowers brown, in spikes, female flowers red, in tight clusters, appearing single. Cones very rarely with diameter greater than length, cone body 10–45 mm long, 8–21 mm in diameter, bracteoles thickly woody and convex, broad-pointed to blunt, protuberance occasionally with 2 lateral bodies. Mature 'seeds' 4–10 mm long, with one wing, dark brown to black, shining.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Allocasuarina~littoralis (accessed 10 April 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
