About Allocasuarina monilifera (L.A.S.Johnson) L.A.S.Johnson
Allocasuarina monilifera is usually a monoecious shrub that typically reaches 0.5 to 4 meters in height and 1 to 4 meters in width. Its branchlets grow up to 150 millimeters long. The true leaves of this species are reduced to erect to slightly spreading, scale-like teeth 0.5 to 1 millimeter long, arranged in whorls of six to nine around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls measure 6 to 11 millimeters in length and 0.6 to 1.2 millimeters in width, and have a slight waxy coating. Male flowers are arranged in spikes 10 to 35 millimeters long, with anthers 0.7 to 1.2 millimeters long. Female cones are cylindrical, and grow on a peduncle 2 to 10 millimeters long. Mature cones are 15 to 30 millimeters long and 8 to 14 millimeters in diameter, and contain winged seeds 5 to 6 millimeters long. This species grows in heath and woodland in dry coastal areas of northern and eastern Tasmania, as well as on Flinders Island and the islands of the Kent Group in Bass Strait.
