Casuarina glauca

Casaurina glauca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Casuarinaceae
Genus: Casuarina
Species: C. glauca
Binomial name
Casuarina glauca
Sieber

Casuarina glauca, commonly known as the swamp she-oak, swamp oak, grey oak, or river oak,[1] is a species of Casuarina native to the east coast of Australia. It is found from central Queensland south to southern New South Wales. It has become naturalised in the Everglades in Florida where it is considered a weed.[2]

The larvae of the she-oak moth, Pernattia pusilla, feed on C. glauca.

C. glauca is an actinorhizal plant producing root nitrogen-fixing nodules infested by Frankia. There is a regular pattern of cell layers containing flavans.[3] Although not a legume, C. glauca, produces a hemoglobin (not a leghemoglobin) in its symbiotic root nodules.[4]

The Kabi name for the plant, bilai, was used for the town and locality of Bli Bli, Queensland.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Burke's Backyard: Factsheets, Casuarinas".
  2. ↑ "Biological control of Australian native Casuarina species in the USA". Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. 16 May 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
  3. ↑ Laplaze, L.; Gherbi, H.; Frutz, T.; Pawlowski, K.; Franche, C.; Macheix, J. J.; Auguy, F.; Bogusz, D.; Duhoux, E. (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, E. O.; Jørgensen, J. E.; Marcker, K. A.; Peacock, W. J.; Dennis, E. S. (1995). "Symbiotic and nonsymbiotic hemoglobin genes of Casuarina glauca". The Plant cell 7 (2): 213–223. doi:10.1105/tpc.7.2.213. PMC 160777. PMID 7756831.
  5. ↑ "Bli Bli (town) (entry 3174)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Bli Bli (locality) (entry 47165)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 25 June 2015.

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