[4] The dioecious or monoecious has terete, smooth, striated stem segments to 2 centimetres (0.8 in) long with seven reduced leaves around the end.

Fruits that form later are small and woody cylindrical cones containing numerous valves with smooth semi-flat black seeds that have a papery wing.

[4] When cultivated it grows best in full sun or part shade and is found on hills, footslopes and plains.

[1] A hardy foliage plant it is often grown as a low informal hedge in roadside verges and raised beds.

[5] It was later reclassified by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson into the Allocasuarina genera in 1982 in the article Notes on Casuarinaceae II in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.