Allocasuarina monilifera
Allocasuarina monilifera, commonly known as necklace sheoak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is usually a monoecious, low-growing shrub that has branchlets up to long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of six to nine, the fruiting cones long containing winged seeds long. Description Allocasuarina monilifera is usually a monoecious shrub that typically grows to high and wide. Its branchlets are long, the leaves reduced to erect to slightly spreading, scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of six to nine around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls are long, wide and are slightly waxy. 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 containing winged seeds long. Taxonomy Necklace sheoak was first formally described in 1967 by Lawrie Johnson who gave it the name Casuarina monilifera The Student's Flora of Tasmamia from specimens he collected at Eaglehawk Neck in 1949. In 1982, Johnson transferred the species to Allocasuarina as A. monilifera in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The specific epithet, (monilifera) means "necklace-bearing". Distribution and habitat Allocasuarina