Allocasuarina

Allocasuarina
Allocasuarina decaisneana in Central Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Casuarinaceae
Genus: Allocasuarina
L.A.S.Johnson[1]
Type species
Allocasuarina torulosa (Aiton) L.A.S.Johnson[2][3]
Species

61 species; see text.

Allocasuarina littoralis drawing (Edward Minchen)
Allocasuarina inophloia

Allocasuarina, commonly known as sheoak[4] or she-oak,[5] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Allocasuarina are trees or shrubs with soft, pendulous, green branchlets, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth. Allocasuarinas are either monoecious or dioecious, the flowers never bisexual. Male and female flowers are arranged in spikes, the female spikes developing into cone-like structures enclosing winged seeds.

The genera Allocasuarina and Casuarina are similar, and many formerly in the latter now included in Allocasuarina.

  1. ^ "Allocasuarina". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Allocasuarina". APNI. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  3. ^ Johnson, Lawrence A. (1982). "Note on Casuarinaceae II". Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 6 (1): 73–79. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Allocasuarina". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  5. ^ "Allocasuarina" (PDF). Wildflower Society of Western Australia (Inc.), Perth Branch. Retrieved 21 April 2023.