Allocasuarina inophloia
Allocasuarina inophloia,  commonly known as stringybark she-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small dioecious tree that has finely fibrous, ribbony bark, its leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to nine, the mature fruiting cones  long containing winged seeds (samaras)  long.

Description
Allocasuarina inophloia is a dioecious tree with distinctive, finely fibrous, ribbony bark which typically grows to a height of . Its branchlets are up to  long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth  long, arranged in whorls of seven to nine around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls (the "articles") are  long and  wide. Male flowers are arranged in spikes  long, in whorls of 7 to 14 per centimetre (per 0.39 in.), the anthers  long. The mature cones are  long and  in diameter containing dark brown samaras  long.

Taxonomy
This she-oak was first formally described in 1882 by Ferdinand von Mueller and Frederick Manson Bailey who gave it the name Casuarina inophloia in The Chemist and Druggist with Australasian Supplement. In 1982, Lawrie Johnson transferred it to the new genus Allocasuarina as A. inophloia in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The specific epithet (inophloia) means "sinew-bark".

Distribution and habitat
Allocasuarina inophloia grows in woodland on sandstone, ironstone or laterite ridges. It is found from near Herberton in Queensland to Torrington and Emmaville in New South Wales with a disjunct population in the Clarence River valley. In the Torrington area, it sometimes occurs in tall shrubland associated with species such as Allocasuarina brachystachya, Acacia williamsiana, Micromyrtus grandis and understorey shrubs such as Leucopogon neoanglicus and Calytrix tetragona.

Ecology
Stringybark she-oak has been recorded as a host plant for the orange mistletoe (Dendrophthoe glabrescens).

Use in horticulture
The shaggy bark of this species gives it horticultural potential. It is frost hardy and able to tolerate poor soils.

References

Fagales of Australia
inophloia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Trees of Australia
Plants described in 1882
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
Taxa named by Frederick Manson Bailey
Dioecious plants