Drooping Sheoak
S9, Male, Flower Buds
Murray Mallee Region
Drooping Sheoak
S8, Male, A Bunch of Flowers
 
                      
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."

Copyright © 2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 08-Jul-2024
This species is classed as RA (Rare) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)