Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Casuarinaceae
Casuarinaceae
Description:
Species Description - A tree, reaching in the American tropics a maximum height of about 20 m. s with a trunk up to 1 m. in diameter, much larger in Australia, with long and slender branches, the upper ones erect or nearly so, the dark brown bark furrowed. Twigs angular, very slender, drooping; leaves 6-8 in each whorl, only 1-3 mm. long, acute, appressed, ciliate, decurrent on the twigs; staminate flowers in slender terminal cylindric spikes 1-4 cm. long, the bracts imbricated, the anthers exserted; pistillate flowers in lateral dense subglobose heads which become about 2 em. in diameter in fruit.
Species Description - A tree, reaching in the American tropics a maximum height of about 20 m. s with a trunk up to 1 m. in diameter, much larger in Australia, with long and slender branches, the upper ones erect or nearly so, the dark brown bark furrowed. Twigs angular, very slender, drooping; leaves 6-8 in each whorl, only 1-3 mm. long, acute, appressed, ciliate, decurrent on the twigs; staminate flowers in slender terminal cylindric spikes 1-4 cm. long, the bracts imbricated, the anthers exserted; pistillate flowers in lateral dense subglobose heads which become about 2 em. in diameter in fruit.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Australia Oceania| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies| Yucatán Mexico North America|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Australia Oceania| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies| Yucatán Mexico North America|