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Casuarina and Allocasuarina Species

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Trees IV

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 35))

Abstract

Casuarinas are a group of 96 species of trees and shrubs belonging to the family Casuarinaceae (Wilson and Johnson 1989). The family is unique amongst the angiosperms and, having no close relatives, is assigned to an order of its own, the Casuarinales (Beadle 1981). Casuarinas are morphologically distinctive with the foliage consisting of long needle-like articulate photosynthetic (assimilatory) branchlets. The branchlets have more or less spaced nodes. At each of these is a whorl of 4–20 leaves reduced to teeth (Fig. 1).

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Duhoux, E. et al. (1996). Casuarina and Allocasuarina Species. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Trees IV. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10617-4_5

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