Allocasuarina paradoxa is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Victoria. It is a dioecious or monoecious shrub that has branchlets up to long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to eleven, the fruiting cones long containing winged seeds long.
Allocasuarina paradoxa is a dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth bark. Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to long, the leaves reduced to erect to slightly spreading, scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of six or seven around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls (the "articles") are long, wide and have a waxy covering. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, the anthers long. Female cones are cylindrical, on a peduncle long. Mature cones are long and in diameter, the samaras long.[1] [2]
This she-oak was first formally described in 1931 by Ellen Dulcie Macklin who gave it the name Casuarina paradoxa in the Kew Bulletin.[3] [4] It was reclassified in 1982 as Allocasuarina paradoxa by Lawrie Johnson in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.[5]
Allocasuarina paradoxa grows in tall heath in the Grampians National Park and between Melbourne and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria.