Аллоказуарина Фрейзера: Описание и Значение для Коренных Жителей Западной Австралии

Species of tree

Allocasuarina fraseriana, commonly known as western sheoak, or Fraser's sheoak is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae, and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. The Noongar peoples know the tree as kondil,condil, kulli or gulli. It is a monoecious tree that has branchlets up to long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of six to eight, and the mature fruiting cones long, containing winged seeds (samaras) long.

Allocasuarina fraseriana is a monoecious tree that typically grows to a height of , the trunk with a dbh of Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to long, the leaves reduced to spreading, scale like teeth long, arranged in whorls of six to eight around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls (the "articles") are long and in diameter. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, the anthers long. Female cones are shortly cylindrical and covered with soft hair when young, the mature cones long and in diameter, the samaras long. Flowering occurs from May to October.

This species of sheoak was first formally described in 1848 by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, who gave it the name Casuarina fraseriana in Revisio critica Casuarinarum. It was reclassified in 1982 as Allocasuarina fraseriana by Lawrie Johnson in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The specific name fraseriana honours the botanist Charles Fraser.

Allocasuarina fraseriana grows in jarrah woodland and open forest in near coastal regions between Perth and Albany, with a disjunct population between Moora and Jurien Bay, in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south west Western Australia.

Noongar women give birth beneath the tree because of the soft needles. The needles were also used for bedding in shelters and often covered with a kangaroo skin cloak to make a bed.