Common name: Bulloak, Buloke
Allocasuarina luehmannii (R.T.Baker) L.A.S.Johnson APNI* Synonyms: Casuarina luehmannii R.T.Baker APNI*
Description: Dioecious tree 5–15 m high; bark furrowed.
Branchlets ascending; articles finely pubescent especially in the furrow shen immature, sometimes waxy, of slightly greater diam. near their apex than towards their base, 8–22 mm long, 1.0–2.0 mm in diameter; phyllichnia flat to slightly rounded-convex, verruculose; teeth 10–14, erect, 0.5–1.0 mm long.
Male spikes 1.5–4.5 cm long, 5–8 whorls per cm; anther 1.0–1.3 mm long.
Cones very short-cylindrical (broader than long), pubescent at least when young, sessile or on short peduncle to 5 mm long; cone body 5–12 mm long, 8–14 mm diameter; bracts inconspicuous; bracteoles with acute to obtuse apex, protuberance entire, pyramidal or flattened, with obtuse apex, much shorter than the bracteole body and diverging from it near its base. Samaras red-brown.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in most of the State except the far west and coastal regions. Also in Qld, Vic, SA. Scattered in woodland on non-calcareous soils.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, CT
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A.
Buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii) Woodland in the Riverina and Murray-Darling Depression bioregions is listed as an Endangered Ecological Community (http://threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=20082; see also minor amendment at http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/determinations/allocasurarinleuhmanni36a.htm)
Text by K. L. Wilson & L. A. S. Johnson (1990); edited KL Wilson (Feb, April 2014, Feb 2017, April 2026)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990); Wilson and Johnson, Flora of Australia vol. 3 (1989)
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