Casuarina glauca Spreng.

Dioecious, small to large tree up to 15 m high, with branches ± erect. Young branchlets glabrous, relatively stout (1–1.5 mm diam.), rounded with as many flat ribs as lf-teeth. Lf-teeth of adult branchlets in whorls of (12)–14–16–(17), lanceolate, brown at base, 0.66–1 mm long; tip pale white or grey, usually withering. ♂ fls in terminal spikes (10)–15–30 mm long; whorls of bracts overlapping when fls mature. Cone ellipsoid or subglobose and flattened at apex, 10–15 mm long; margins of valves acute or with a short blunt point; seeds dull, light whitish brown, 4–6 mm long, with pale membranous wing.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]