Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Allocasuarina verticillata
Common name
Drooping sheoak
Family
Casuarinaceae
Where found
Grassy woodland, rocky sea-coasts, and on dry ridges inland. Widespread.
Notes
Tree or shrub to10 m high. Bracteoles on the cones often sharp. Bark fissured. Branchlets to 40 cm long, articles 10–60 mm long, 0.7–2 mm in diameter, broadened at the end near the teeth. Leaves very small, forming whorls of teeth on the branchlets. Teeth 8–13, spreading, not overlapping, withering early. Male and female flowers on different plants. Male flowers brown, in spikes, female flowers red, in tight clusters, appearing single. Male spikes 30–120 mm long, 2–4 whorls per cm. Female clusters 6-11 mm long. Cone body 20–50 mm long, 17–30 mm in diameter, bracteoles thickly woody and convex, broad-pointed (often sharp). Mature 'seeds' 7–12 mm long, very dark brown, shining, with one wing.
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~verticillata (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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