Common name: Stringybark She-Oak
Allocasuarina inophloia (F.Muell. & F.M.Bailey) L.A.S.Johnson APNI* Synonyms: Casuarina inophloia F.Muell. & F.M.Bailey APNI*
Description: Dioecious small tree, with open spreading crown, 3–10 m high; bark distinctively finely ribbony-fibrous, reb-brown.
Branchlets drooping or ascending, to 21 cm long; articles glabrous, 4–7 mm long, 0.5–0.6 mm in diameter; phyllichnia slightly rounded-convex with verruculose median ridge or line; teeth 7–9, erect, 0.3–0.5 mm long, not withering, not overlapping.
Male spikes 2–4 cm long, 7–14 whorls per cm; bracteoles deciduous individually; anther 0.5–0.8 mm long.
Cones cylindrical, densely pubescent, on peduncle 3–8 mm long; cone body 10–20 mm long, 9–12 mm diameter; bracteoles with acute to obtuse apex, protuberance usually divided near apex into 2–3 pyramidal bodies with acute to obtuse apex (or rarely only 1 body). Samara 5.0–6.0 mm long, dark brown.
Distribution and occurrence: Torrington and Emmaville to Yetman and Warialda, also in Clarence River valley; also in Queensland south from Herberton. In woodland on ironstone or sandstone ridges.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
The ribbony-fibrous bark of this species is unique in the genus. In Qld, it often grows with the unrelated Lysicarpus angustifolius (Myrtaceae), which also has ribbony-fibrous bark.
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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