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Allocasuarina torulosa is slender, usually dioecious tree that typically grows to a height of 5–20 m (16–66 ft). Its branchlets are drooping, up to 140 mm (5.5 in) long, the leaves reduced to erect, scale-like teeth 0.3–0.8 mm (0.01–0.03 in) long, arranged in whorls of four or five around the branchlets.
The genus Allocasuarina was first formally described in 1982 by Lawrence Johnson in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. [2] In the same paper, Johnson transferred some species previously included in Casuarina to the new genus, and nominated Allocasuarina torulosa Aiton L.A.S.Johnson as the type species. [3]
Allocasuarina torulosa (Rose She-Oak or Forest Oak), a tree which grows in sub-rainforest of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia; Cupressus torulosa, species of cypress; Deightoniella torulosa, plant pathogen; Epioblasma torulosa, species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels
Female cones of C. equisetifolia. Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine [3] [4] [5] and native pine, [6] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.
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The somewhat resinous shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 1.3 to 15 m (4 ft 3 in to 49 ft 3 in). It has brown to grey coloured bark that become flaky with age. The glabrous are angled to terete. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thinly to moderately coriaceous phyllodes are a yellowish green ...
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 6645 least concern plant species. [1] 30% of all evaluated plant species are listed as least concern.
Allocasuarina luehmannii is a dioecious tree that typically grows to a height of 5–15 m (16–49 ft) and has furrowed bark. Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to 400 mm (16 in) long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth 0.5–1 mm (0.02–0.04 in) long, arranged in whorls of ten to fourteen around the branchlets.