Allocasuarina nana

Dwarf she oak
	Blue Mountains, Australia
	Female flowers & cones
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Casuarinaceae
Genus:	Allocasuarina
Species:	A. nana
Binomial name
	Allocasuarina nana; (Sieber ex Spreng.) 'L.A.S.Johnson
	Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms
	Casuarina nana

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.

External links[]

Occurrence data for Allocasuarina nana from The Australasian Virtual Herbarium

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[plantnet-1] 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-2] 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.

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