''Allocasuarina acutivalvis'' is a shrub or tree of the genus ''

Allocasuarina ''Allocasuarina'' is a genus of trees in the flowering plant family Casuarinaceae. They are endemic to Australia, occurring primarily in the south. Like the closely related genus ''Casuarina'', they are commonly called sheoaks or she-oaks. Wi ...

'' native to the Wheatbelt, Goldfields-Esperance and

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Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

. The

dioecious Dioecy (; ; adj. dioecious , ) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproductio ...

shrub or tree typically grows to a height of . It produces brown flowers and is found in tall, open woodland and rocky hillsides. The species was first formally described as ''Casuarina acutivalvis'' by the

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in 1867 in the work '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae''. It was reclassified in 1982 into the genus ''Allocasuarina'' by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

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acutivalvis Rosids of Western Australia Fagales of Australia Plants described in 1867 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller Dioecious plants {{Fagales-stub