Allocasuarina simulans L.A.S.Johnson APNI* 
Description: Dioecious (rarely monoecious) shrub 1–3(-7) m high; bark smooth, greyish brown.
Branchlets ascending, to 19 cm long; articles smooth, with furrows pubescent or glabrous (often both conditions on the same plant), 13–22 mm long, 0.9–1.3 mm diam.; ridges rounded-convex to broadly angular; teeth 6, erect, often slightly overlapping at least at bases, eventually withering, 0.5–1.1 mm long.
Male spikes not moniliform, 1.5–4.5 cm long, c. 4 whorls per cm.
Cones long-cylindrical, often irregular in outline (indicating poor pollination of individual flowers) and with sterile apex to c. 12 mm long, on a peduncle 3–14 mm long and c. 2 mm in diameter; cone body 14–33 mm long (excluding sterile apex), 9–12 mm in diameter; bracteoles broad-acute to obtuse, with a pyramidal protuberance shorter than bracteole body. Samara 4.5–6.0 mm long, very dark brown to black.
Distribution and occurrence: North Coast: only known from Nabiac to Forster and Booti Booti. In heathland on sand, also in Banksia aemula dry sclerophyll shrubland and Eucalyptus pilularis - Angophora costata open woodland.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Resprouts after fire (S. Griffith and I. Wardlaw, pers. comm.).
Text by K. L. Wilson & L. A. S. Johnson (1990); edited KL Wilson (Feb 2014; May 2018; June2020; April 2026)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990); Wilson and Johnson, Flora of Australia vol. 3 (1989)
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