Casuarinaceae
Sheoak Family
The Casuarinaceae family (Sheoak Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Fagales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a tree. Several members are valued in traditional medicine.
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Fine, jointed, needle-like green branchlets that photosynthesise in place of true leaves, which are reduced to tiny toothed scales encircling each joint; tiny flowers ripen into a small, hard, cone-like woody fruiting head that looks remarkably like a conifer cone despite being a flowering plant.
Although it looks and even sounds like a pine from a distance, this is a true flowering plant, not a conifer at all.
Typical flower & fruit
- Flower symmetryVariable
- InflorescenceVariable
- FruitCone
Typical of the family — flowering plants only; species can vary.
Notable members
All 1 species in CASUARINACEAE
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