Allocasuarina rupicola L.A.S.Johnson APNI* 
Description: Dioecious slender shrub, 1–3 m high; bark smooth, grey-brown.
Branchlets ascending, to 18 cm long; articles smooth, usually glabrous, 8–11 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm diam.; phyllichnia angular to rounded-convex, with median ridge; teeth 7 or 8, erect to slightly spreading when old, rarely withering, 0.2–0.6 mm long.
Male spikes moniliform, 1–2.5cm long, 7.5–8 whorls per cm; bracteoles persistent; anther 0.7–0.8 mm long.
Cones short-cylindrical, on peduncle 2–14 mm long; cone body 6–19 mm long, 6–10 mm diam.; bracteoles obtuse to truncate, with thick pyramidal protuberance shorter than bracteole body. Samara 2.8–5.0 mm long, mid- to dark brown.
Distribution and occurrence: Queensland - NSW border region, between Wyberba and Boonoo Boonoo Falls area. In clefts in granite on mountain slopes and along rocky creeks.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Other Australian states: Qld
Close to A. rigida, but differs in teeth not spreading when fresh.
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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