Common name: Belah, Muurrgu
Casuarina cristata Miq. APNI* Synonyms: Casuarina cambagei R.T.Baker APNI*
Casuarina lepidophloia F.Muell. APNI*
Casuarina cristata Miq. APNI*
Description: Dioecious tree 10–20 m high, frequently producing suckers.
Branchlets drooping in vigorous specimens, spreading in depauperate specimens. Articles somewhat waxy, occasionally sparsely hairy, 8–17 mm long, 0.6–0.9 mm diam., disarticulating readily; teeth erect to appressed, 8–12, 0.5–0.7 mm long; teeth on new shoots erect to somewhat spreading.
Anther 0.8–1.1 mm long.
Cone body 13–18 mm (occasionally to 25 mm) long, nearly glabrous at maturity. Samara 6.0–10.5 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence: Mostly inland, from central Qld south to Temora area. Usually grows on clayey soils with calcareous nodules near the surface.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld
There is some intergradation between C. pauper and C. cristata from Bourke to west of Condobolin. Known as Muurrgu/Murrgu in Yuwaalaraay language (Walgett region).
Text by K. L. Wilson & L. A. S. Johnson (1990); edited KL Wilson (June 2009, Feb 2014)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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