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Allocasuarina thalassoscopica - profile

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Scientific name: Allocasuarina thalassoscopica
Conservation status in NSW: Not listed
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Gazetted date: 03 Jul 2008
Profile last updated: 14 Oct 2024

Description

Dioecious spreading to erect shrub 0.5-.1.5m high, root-suckering; bark grey-brown, smooth or slightly fissured on big branches.

Branchlets ascending, to 12 (-18) cm long; articles 3–12 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm diam., smooth, slightly pubescent in furrows; phyllichnia angular to rounded; teeth 5–7(-10), acute, erect to slightly spreading, convex, not overlapping, not or rarely marcescent.

Male spikes 0.5–4.5 cm long, 6–10(-17) whorls per cm; bracteoles persistent; anther 0.5–1.0 mm long.

Cones cylindrical, occasionally irregular and with a sterile apex to c. 5 mm long; peduncle 3–14 mm long, slender; cone body 12–28 mm long, (6-)8–18 mm diam.; bracteoles obtuse to broadly acute, pyramidal protuberance shorter than bracteole body and diverging from it low down. Samaras 4.0–8.0 mm long, dark brown to blackish.

Distribution

In clay heaths north of Forster

Habitat and ecology

  • Clay Heaths

Regional distribution and habitat

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IBRA Bioregion IBRA Subregion Known or predicted Geographic restrictions region
NSW North CoastCoffs Coast and Escarpment Known None
NSW North CoastKaruah Manning Known None
NSW North CoastMacleay Hastings Known None
NSW North CoastYuraygir Known None
South Eastern QueenslandBurringbar-Conondale Ranges Known None
South Eastern QueenslandClarence Lowlands Known None
South Eastern QueenslandSunshine Coast-Gold Coast Lowlands Predicted None