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Taxon: Casuarina equisetifolia L.

Genus: Casuarina
Family: Casuarinaceae.
Nomen number: 9553
Place of publication: Amoen. acad. 4:143. 1759 "equisefolia" (Forster & Forster f., Char. gen. pl. ed. 1:105, t. 52. 1775)
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: see Friis (1980) for citation; Linnaeus's diagnosis, under the name Casuarina litorea, appears on p. 123
Name verified on: 12-Aug-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-Feb-2006
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • Australian beefwood   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Australian-pine   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  • beach she-oak   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:86.) – English
  • beef wood-tree   (Source: Phytologia 85:106.) – English
  • coast she-oak   (Source: F Aust ) – English
  • horsetailtree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • ironwood   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:86.) – English
  • whistling-pine   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:86.) – 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

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • 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
    South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
    Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Vanuatu

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized in tropical & s. Africa, s.e. United States, West Indies, Mascarenes, Galapagos, Melanesia, Polynesia, & Hawaii

References:

  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Agroforestry.net. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry - on-line resource. (Trad Tree Init)
  • Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
  • Bentham, G. 1863–1878. Flora australiensis. (F AustBenth)
  • Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
  • Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
  • Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 11:86.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • 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. (F Aust) 3:104.
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Guillaumin, A. 1948. Flore analytique et synoptique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. (F NCGuill)
  • 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. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
  • 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.
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • Long, R. W. & O. Lakela. 1971. A flora of tropical Florida. (F TFla)
  • 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. (Firewood Cr)
  • Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed. (F Fiji)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
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Check other databases for Casuarina equisetifolia L.:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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