Allocasuarina distyla
Allocasuarina distyla, commonly known as scrub she-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a dioecious shrub that has branchlets up to long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of six to eight, the fruiting cones long containing winged seeds long.
Description
Allocasuarina distyla is a dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of and usually has smooth bark. Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to long, the leaves reduced to erect, scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of six to eight around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls are long and wide. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, in whorls of 4.5 to 6.5 per centimetre, the anthers long. Female cones are cylindrical, on a peduncle long or sometimes longer. Mature cones are long and in diameter, the samaras dark brown to black and long.Hybrids with A. littoralis are common between Broken Bay and Port Hacking.