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CASUARINACEAE

Two genera, Casuarina Adans. and Gymnostoma L. Johnson, comprising 65 species of trees and shrubs (often of weeping habit) are found in eastern Africa, the Mascarenes, and from south-eastern Asia to north-eastern Australia and Polynesia.

Pollinosis caused by Casuarina has been reported.

Casuarina Adans.

Australian Oak, She-oak, Forest Oak

The pollen is reported to cause pollinosis in Florida (Wodehouse 1971).

References

• Wodehouse RP (1971) Hayfever Plants, 2nd revised edn. New York: Hafner Publishing Co.

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