''Allocasuarina emuina'', commonly known as the Emu Mountain sheoak, is a shrub 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

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

. The shrub has a spreading habit that typically grows to a height have and has smooth bark. It has long wiry needle-like branchlets and their leaves are reduced to whorls of small triangular teeth which occur at regular intervals along the branchlets. The branchlets are up to long and go up the branch. The leaves are yellow-green in colour and usually have 6–8 teeth. It has a limited distribution through a small area of south west Queensland across a linear range of between

Beerburrum Beerburrum is a small town and coastal locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Beerburrum had a population of 763 people. Geography The locality is north of the state capital, Brisbane. The Bruce Highway passes f ...

and

Noosa The Shire of Noosa is a local government area about north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast district of South East Queensland, Australia. The shire covers an area of . It existed as a local government entity from 1910 until 2008, when it was ...

on the Sunshine Coast. There were four known population with an estimated total number of 12,000 individuals in 1993. The species was first described by the

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948 ...

in 1989 in the work ''Casuarinaceae. Flora of Australia''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15377018 emuina Flora of Queensland Fagales of Australia Plants described in 1989