Allocasuarina decaisneana

Allocasuarina decaisneana - Mature specimen and young plants.

Allocasuarina decaisneana (synonym: Casuarina decaisneana - German: " Wüstenkasuarine " / English: "Desert Oak " ) is a plant of the genus Allocasuarina in the family Kasuarinengewächse ( Casuarinaceae ).

Description

Vegetative characteristics

Allocasuarina decaisneana is a medium-sized, evergreen tree. Due to the very far-reaching in the Deep roots Allocasuarina decaisneana can survive in very dry areas. He has long, thin, segmented and rods -like branches, which take over the function of the leaves and are called Phyllokladium.

Generative features

Allocasuarina decaisneana forms large, spiny, ( similar to pin ), woody fruit stands out, containing the nuts fruit.

Occurrence

Allocasuarina decaisneana comes from desert regions of Central Australia ( Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia ).

It occurs in the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park, which includes, among others, the Uluru Kata Tjuta and the.

Taxonomy

The first description was in 1858 under the name ( basionym ) Casuarina decaisneana by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiæ Australiae, 1, p 61 The distribution of the genus Casuarina, in 1982 by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, the new combination to Allocasuarina decaisneana.

Swell

• Martin Baehr: animal and plant leaders Australia, Stuttgart 2006.