''Allocasuarina trichodon'' 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 an area along the south coast in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of

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 shrub typically grows to a height of . It is found in rocky skeletal soils and granitic hillsides.

Taxonomy

This plant was first described by Miquel in 1845 as ''Casuarina trichodon'', and this was revised to ''Allocasuarina trichodon'' by L.A.S.Johnson in 1982.

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Occurrence data for ''Allocasuarina trichodon''
from The Australasian Virtual Herbarium {{Taxonbar, from=Q15376548 trichodon Rosids of Western Australia Fagales of Australia