The female cones are on a peduncle 2–9 mm (0.08–0.4 in) long and sparsely covered with soft hairs.

[2][3][4] Casuarina cunninghamiana was first formally described in 1848 by Friedrich Miquel in his book Revisio critica Casuarinarum from specimens collected by Allan Cunningham near Moreton Bay.

miodon in the Flora of Australia, and the name, and that of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: This casuarina mainly grows in pure stands in open forest on the banks of freshwater rivers and streams in Australia and New Guinea.

[3][11][12] Subspecies cunninghamiana occurs from Laura, Chillagoe and Augathella in Queensland to Condobolin and Narrandera in New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory.

[2][3][8] Subspecies miodon occurs between the Daly River in the north of the Northern Territory to the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland.