Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Allocasuarina paludosa
Common name
Swamp she-oak, Scrub sheoak
Family
Casuarinaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and near swamps. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Spreading shrub to 3 m high. Bark smooth, grey. Plants green or grey depending on the hairiness of the articles. Branchlets pointing up or curved, to 20 cm long. Articles usually densely hairy in the furrows; ridges flat or slightly rounded-convex, occasionally hairy, usually with a longitudinal groove down the middle. Leaves very small, forming whorls of teeth on the branchlets. Teeth 5-8, pointing up or spreading, not overlapping, often withering. Male and female flowers on the same plant or on different plants. Male flowers brown, in spikes, female flowers red, in tight clusters, appearing single. Male spikes 10–25 mm long, 7–9 whorls per cm. Cone body 10–23 mm long, 7–13 mm in diameter, bracteoles thickly woody and convex, squared off to blunt. Mature 'seeds' 3.5–5 mm long, dark brown or black, shining, with one wing.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Allocasuarina~paludosa (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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