Drooping Sheoak: S8, Male, Flower Stem

Drooping Sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata)

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Beeches (Fagales)

Family:

She-oak (Casuarinaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Drooping Sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata)

This Photo:

🔍S8, Male, Flower Stem🔎

Other names:

Drooping She-oak, Coast She-oak

Thank you Asimakis Patitsas, Alan Dandie (Alan_Dandie) & Darcy Whittaker for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Flinders Ranges, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere
Fruit & leaf joins point to A. verticillata.
We thought this may have been A. pusilla before checking on-line.
Alan said "It's far too symmetrical to be A. pusilla."

This species is classed as

RA (Rare)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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