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Casuarina glauca Sieber

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Casuarina glauca is widely cultivated in many parts of the world. Pistillate trees are very infrequent in the flora.

It is now considered a pest species in Florida because of root suckering. Its identification may be confused by the practice of some Florida nurserymen of grafting scions of Casuarina glauca onto rootstocks from the other two species.

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Used for timber.
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Flora of China Vol. 4: 107 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Trees , 8-20 m, frequently producing root suckers. Bark gray-brown, finely fissured and scaly. Branchlets drooping; segments 8-20 × 0.9-1.2 mm, glabrous, occasionally waxy; longitudinal ridges flat to slightly rounded-convex; teeth usually marcescent, 12-17, erect, 0.6-0.9 mm. Young permanent shoots with long-recurved teeth. Flowers unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants. Staminate spikes 1.2-4 cm, 7-10 whorls per cm; anthers ca. 0.8 mm. Infructescences rust-colored to white-pubescent, becoming glabrous; peduncles 3-12 mm; infructescence body 9-18 × 7-9 mm; bracteoles broadly acute. Samaras 3.5-5 mm.
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Trees dioecious, to 20 m tall. Trunk to 35 cm d.b.h.; bark grayish brown or grayish black, finely fissured and scaly, pale yellow adaxially. Ultimate branchlets ascending to pendulous, grayish green or glaucous green, rather long, to 1 m, 0.9-1.4 mm in diam.; articles 1-1.8 cm, slightly swollen at apex. Leaves erect but those of new shoots strongly recurved, 12-17 per whorl, narrowly lanceolate. Male inflorescences 1-3 cm. Cones broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 1.2-2 cm, truncate at both ends; apex of bracteoles broadly acute to obtuse. Samaras 4-6 mm including wing. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Jun-Sep. 2n = 18*.
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Distribution

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introduced; Fla.; native, e coast Australia.
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Habitat

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Commonly near brackish water; 0-50m.
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Habitat & Distribution

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Cultivated in Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, Zhejiang [native to Australia]
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Casuarina glauca ( Asturian )

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Casuarina glauca,[1] ye una especie de Casuarina nativa de la mariña esti d'Australia. Atopar dende'l centru de Queensland al sur de Nueva Gales del Sur. Naturalizóse nel Everglaes en Florida, onde se considera una meruxa.[2]

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Vista de la planta

Les canesbes de la poliya Pernattia pusilla, alimentar de C. glauca.

Propiedaes

C. glauca ye una planta actinorrícica que produz nódulos fijadores de nitróxenu de raigaños infestaos por Frankia. Hai un patrón regular de capes de célules que contienen flavanvos.[3] Anque nun ye una lleguminosa, C. glauca, produz una hemoglobina (non una leghemoglobina ) nos sos nódulos de los raigaños simbióticos.[4]

Taxonomía

Casuarina glauca describióse por Sieber ex Spreng. y espublizóse en Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sesta 3: 803. 1826.[5]

Sinonimia
  • Casuarina obtusa Miq.
  • Casuarina torulosa Miq.[6]

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Referencies

  1. «Burke's Backyard: Factsheets, Casuarinas».
  2. «Biological control of Australian native Casuarina species in the USA». Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (16 de mayu de 2007). Consultáu'l 16 de setiembre de 2010.
  3. Laplaze, L.; Gherbi, H.; Frutz, T.; Pawlowski, K.; Franche, C.; Macheix, J. J.; Auguy, F.; Bogusz, D.; Duhoux, Y. (2002). "Flavan-Containing Cells Delimit Frankia Infected Compartments in Casuarina glauca Nodules". Nitrogen Fixation: From Molecules to Crop Productivity. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture 38. p. 455. doi:10.1007/0-306-47615-0_254. ISBN 0-7923-6233-0.
  4. Jacobsen-Lyon, K.; Jensen, Y. O.; Jørgensen, J. Y.; Marcker, K. A.; Peacock, W. J.; Dennis, Y. S. (1995). "Symbiotic and nonsymbiotic hemoglobin xenes of Casuarina glauca". The Plant cell 7 (2): 213–223. PMC 160777. PMID 7756831.
  5. «Casuarina glauca». Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Consultáu'l 6 d'abril de 2014.
  6. Casuarina glauca en PlantList

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Casuarina glauca: Brief Summary ( Asturian )

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Casuarina glauca

Casuarina glauca, ye una especie de Casuarina nativa de la mariña esti d'Australia. Atopar dende'l centru de Queensland al sur de Nueva Gales del Sur. Naturalizóse nel Everglaes en Florida, onde se considera una meruxa.

" Vista de la planta

Les canesbes de la poliya Pernattia pusilla, alimentar de C. glauca.

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