Casuarina and Allocasuarina Species

Casuarina Cunninghamiana Miq. (River Sheoak) in Florida and Its Potential as a Windbreak Plant for Citrus Groves

“…The primary interests in this method are to preserve by clonal propagation genetic improvements achieved by research (Boland et al, 1996) and to propagate superior trees for commercial plantations (Lal et al, 1996). Micropropagation by tissue culture techniques has also been evaluated and some preliminary success achieved (Duhoux et al, 1996;Parthiban et al, 1996).…”

Foliar ontogeny in Gymnostoma deplancheanum and its evolutionary and ecological significance for scleromorphy and xeromorphy in Casuarinaceae (Fagales)

“…The Casuarinaceae is widely regarded as a group of highly xeromorphic trees and shrubs (Rao 1972;Heywood 1978;Ladd 1988;Hanelt 2000;Schütt et al 2002). The characteristic strongly reduced shoot morphology is regarded as an expression of high specialization (Moseley 1948;Heywood 1982;Torrey and Berg 1988;Duhoux et al 1996;Hanelt 2000;Dörken and Parsons 2017). Within living Casuarinaceae, Allocasuarina is suggested as the most derived and most specialized genus (Torrey and Berg 1988;Wilson and Johnson 1989;Turnbull 1990;Johnson and Wilson 1989;Maggia and Bousquet 1994;Duhoux et al 1996) and the vegetative morphology of Allocasuarina is nearly identical to Casuarina (Torrey and Berg 1988;Guerin 2004).…”

“…The characteristic strongly reduced shoot morphology is regarded as an expression of high specialization (Moseley 1948;Heywood 1982;Torrey and Berg 1988;Duhoux et al 1996;Hanelt 2000;Dörken and Parsons 2017). Within living Casuarinaceae, Allocasuarina is suggested as the most derived and most specialized genus (Torrey and Berg 1988;Wilson and Johnson 1989;Turnbull 1990;Johnson and Wilson 1989;Maggia and Bousquet 1994;Duhoux et al 1996) and the vegetative morphology of Allocasuarina is nearly identical to Casuarina (Torrey and Berg 1988;Guerin 2004). Gymnostoma, the most basal genus within Casuarinaceae (Torrey and Berg 1988;Johnson and Wilson 1993;Sogo et al 2001;Steane et al 2003) is regarded as reflecting several ancestral features (Christophel 1980) and represents the least specialized genus (Flores 1977;Duhoux et al 1996;Dörken and Parsons 2017).…”

“…Within living Casuarinaceae, Allocasuarina is suggested as the most derived and most specialized genus (Torrey and Berg 1988;Wilson and Johnson 1989;Turnbull 1990;Johnson and Wilson 1989;Maggia and Bousquet 1994;Duhoux et al 1996) and the vegetative morphology of Allocasuarina is nearly identical to Casuarina (Torrey and Berg 1988;Guerin 2004). Gymnostoma, the most basal genus within Casuarinaceae (Torrey and Berg 1988;Johnson and Wilson 1993;Sogo et al 2001;Steane et al 2003) is regarded as reflecting several ancestral features (Christophel 1980) and represents the least specialized genus (Flores 1977;Duhoux et al 1996;Dörken and Parsons 2017). Its strongly reduced vegetative morphology might reflect a scleromorphic adaptation (Dörken and Parsons 2017;Dörken et al 2018).…”