Allocasuarina brachystachya L.A.S.Johnson APNI* 
Description: Open, spreading shrub, usually monoecious, 1–3 m high; bark greyish brown.
Branchlets ascending to curved, to 7 cm long; articles usually minutely pubescent in furrows, 2–5 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm in diam.; teeth 5–7, erect, occasionally withering, 0.2–0.5 mm long.
Male spikes not or occasionally moniliform, 0.5–1.7 cm long, with 9–16 whorls of flowers per cm of spike; anthers 0.3–0.6 mm long.
Cones cylindrical, on a peduncle 2–4 mm long; cone body 7–14 mm long, 5–8 mm in diameter; bracteoles truncate to obtuse, with a pyramidal protuberance shorter than bracteole body; samara 2.5–4.0 mm long, dark brown to black.
Distribution and occurrence: Western edge of Northern Tablelands from Emmaville to west of Guyra and Moredun. In low open woodland, on infertile sandy soils.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Similar to A. paludosa but generally smaller in its parts, differing also in being usually monoecious and male spikes occasionally moniliform.
Text by K. L. Wilson & L. A. S. Johnson (1990); edited KL Wilson (Feb 2014, April 2026)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990); Wilson and Johnson, Flora of Australia vol. 3 (1989)
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