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Cape Pillar sheoak
Allocasuarina crassa

About
Allocasuarina crassa, commonly known as Cape Pillar sheoak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to a small area in far south-eastern Tasmania. It is a low shrub to small tree that is monoecious or dioecious, with spreading to erect branchlets up to 170 mm (6.7 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to ten, the fruiting cones 15–34 mm (0.6–1 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 5–8 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long.
- Family
- Casuarinaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Allocasuarina crassa
- Slug
- allocasuarina-crassa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Casuarinaceae
- Genus
- Allocasuarina
- Species
- crassa
- Wikidata QID
- Q4732987
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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