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Allocasuarina thuyoides

Synonyms: Casuarina echinata (homotypic); Casuarina thuyoides (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Allocasuarina thuyoides, commonly known as the Horned sheoak', is a shrub of the genus Allocasuarina native to a large area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. The monoecious or dioecious shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 2 metres (1.0 to 6.6 ft). It flowers from January to December and produces cones with long spines. A. thuyoides is found heathland, sandplains and foothills and grows in clay or sandy lateritic soils.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Structure [1]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fitzgerald River National Park II 732417 Western Australia, Australia

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0