Allocasuarina emuina explained

Allocasuarina emuina, commonly known as the Emu Mountain sheoak, is a shrub of the genus Allocasuarina native to Queensland.[1]

The shrub has a spreading habit that typically grows to a height have 0.5mto2.5mm (01.6feetto08.2feetm) and has smooth bark. It has long wiry needle-like branchlets and their leaves are reduced to whorls of small triangular teeth which occur at regular intervals along the branchlets. The branchlets are up to 12cm (05inches) long and go up the branch. The leaves are yellow-green in colour and usually have 6–8 teeth.[1]

It has a limited distribution through a small area of south west Queensland across a linear range of 55km (34miles) between Beerburrum and Noosa on the Sunshine Coast. There were four known population with an estimated total number of 12,000 individuals in 1993.[1]

The species was first described by the botanist Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in 1989 in the work Casuarinaceae. Flora of Australia.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Allocasuarina emuina — Emu Mountain Sheoak, Mt Emu She-oak. 26 January 2017. Species Profile and Threats Database. Commonwealth of Australia.
  2. Web site: Allocasuarina emuina L.A.S.Johnson. 27 January 2017. Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202033508/http://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2900956#names. 2 February 2017. dead.