Allocasuarina scleroclada

Allocasuarina scleroclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to areas along the south coast of Western Australia.

Its branchlets are up to 230 mm (9.1 in) long and drooping, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth 1.3–2.7 mm (0.051–0.106 in) long, arranged in whorls of ten or eleven around the branchlets.

[2][3][4] This she-aok was first formally described in 1972 by Lawrie Johnson, who gave it the name Casuarina scleroclada in the journal Nuytsia, from specimens he collected near Caiguna in 1967.

[4][5] In 1982, Johnson transferred the species to Allocasuarina as A. scleroclada in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

[4] Allocasuarina scleroclada grows in scrub and low woodland, on rocky hillsides and on limestone shelves near the sea.

Immature female cone