Allocasuarina Zephyrea

Allocasuarina zephyrea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Casuarinaceae
Genus:	Allocasuarina
Species:	A. zephyrea
Binomial name
	Allocasuarina zephyrea; L.A.S.Johnson
	Occurrence data from AVH

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Allocasuarina zephyrea, commonly known as the western scrub sheoak, is a shrub of the genus Allocasuarina native to Tasmania.^[1]

The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 2 metres (1.6 to 6.6 ft). It flowers throughout the year producing flowers that are red tufts of stigma and later forming nut-like fruit. The plant will grow in sandy soils and is found among coastal vegetation or in heath throughout Tasmania from Burnie in the north, through the Central Highlands to Huon Valley in the south.^[1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in Published in 1989 in the work Casuarinaceae. Flora of Australia.^[2]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Allocasuarina zephyrea". Understorey Network. http://www.understorey-network.org.au/communities.html?species=Allocasuarina zephyrea. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
↑ "Allocasuarina zephyrea L.A.S.Johnson". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2902855#names. Retrieved 25 January 2016.

External links

Occurrence data for Allocasuarina zephyrea from The Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Flora of Tasmania Key to the Casuarinaceae (of Tasmania)