Allocasuarina nana

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fagales

Familia: Casuarinaceae
Genus: Allocasuarina
Species: Allocasuarina nana
Name

Allocasuarina nana (Sieber ex Spreng.) L.A.S.Johnson, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 6: 77 (1982).
Synonyms

Basionym
Casuarina nana Sieber ex Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 804 (1826).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:
Allocasuarina nana

Continental: Australasia
Regional: Australia
New South Wales, Victoria.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Johnson, L.A.S. 1982. Notes on Casuarinaceae II. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 6(1): 73–88. JSTOR PDF Reference page. : 6: 77.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Allocasuarina nana in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Sep 28. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Allocasuarina nana. Published online. Accessed: Sep 28 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Allocasuarina nana. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 28 Sep 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Allocasuarina nana in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names
English: stunted she-oak

Allocasuarina nana, commonly known as the dwarf she-oak, is a small, usually dioecious plant found in eastern Australia. Often seen around one metre tall, it grows in exposed heathlands, ridges, clifftops on sandstone based soils. It is found on the coast and tablelands, south of the Cudgegong River near Mudgee.
The habitat of the dwarf she oak is heathland on exposed sandstone plateaux such as here in the Blue Mountains, Australia.

The fruiting cones have a mostly smooth and tessellated surface, around 20 mm long and 12 mm wide. Branchlets are very short, less than 8 cm long, the habit is a multi-stemmed spreading low shrub, forming in dense colonies. The specific epithet nana is from Latin, referring to the dwarf size of this small plant.[2]
References

Wilson, K.L.; Johnson, L.A.S. (1990). "PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Allocasuarina nana". National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
Robinson, Les (2003). Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney (Rev. 3rd ed.). East Roseville, N.S.W.: Kangaroo Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-7318-1211-0 – via National Library of Australia.