Spermatophyta: Dicotyledonae: Archichlamydeae

Casuarinaceae - Beefwood family

Literature

Wilmot-Dear, C.M. (1991) Casuarinaceae FZ 9(6)

Description of the family

Dioecious, less often monoecious trees with drooping Equisetum like branchlets. Flowers clustered in unisexual inflorescences with alternating whorls of bracts. Male inflorescences spicate, solitary and terminal. Female inflorescence spherical or ovoid, axillary towards the end of woody branches. Fruit a dark-coloured samara.

Worldwide: 4 genera and 95 species, Indomalesia, Australia and W Pacific.

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Links to genera: (1)

GenusContent
Casuarina L.

Other sources of information about Casuarinaceae:

Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Casuarinaceae page
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Casuarinaceae
Google: Web - Images - Scholar


Copyright: Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten, 2007-10

Hyde, M.A. & Wursten, B. (2010). Flora of Mozambique: Family page: Casuarinaceae.
http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=51, retrieved 3 September 2010

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