Taxon: Casuarina equisetifolia L.

Common names:

• Australian beefwood   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Australian-pine   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  
• beach casuarina   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• beach she-oak   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:86.) – English
  
• beach-oak   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• beefwoodtree   (Source: Phytologia 85:106.) – English
  
• coast she-oak   (Source: F Aust ) – English
  
• coastal she-oak   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• horsetail she-oak   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• horsetailtree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• ironwood   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:86.) – English
  
• whistling-pine   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:86.) – English
  
• whistlingtree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• perdestertboom   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• bois de fer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• filao   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:86.) – French
  
• pin d'Australie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Eisenholz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Strandkasuarine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• casuarina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• pinheiro-da-Austrália   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• casuarina-cinzenta   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• casuarina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• kasuarina   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:86-87. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:86-87. 1997)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:87. 1997)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:87. 1997)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [n.e.], Queensland [n. & e.]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Vanuatu

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia; Pitcairn
  Southwestern Pacific: Nauru; Niue; Samoa; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• also cultivated

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Bentham, G. 1863–1878. Flora australiensis.
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 11:86.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Friis, I. 1980. The authority and date of publication of the genus Casuarina and its type species. Taxon 29:500.
• George, A. S., ed. 1989. Flora of Australia. 3:104.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Guillaumin, A. 1948. Flore analytique et synoptique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Ho, K. Y. et al. 2002. An assessment of DNA polymorphisms and genetic relationships of Casuarina equisetifolia using RAPD markers. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 43:93–98.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Long, R. W. & O. Lakela. 1971. A flora of tropical Florida.
• Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar. 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source. Phytologia 85:106.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

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Check other web resources for Casuarina equisetifolia L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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