Common names:

• Australian beefwood  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• Australian-pine  (Source: Pl Invasion) - English
• beach casuarina  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• beach she-oak  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• beach-oak  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• beefwoodtree  (Source: Phytologia) - English
• coast she-oak  (Source: F Aust) - English
• coastal she-oak  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• horsetail she-oak  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• horsetailtree  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• ironwood  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• whistling-pine  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• whistlingtree  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• perdestertboom  (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001) - Afrikaans
• bois de fer  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• filao  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - French
• pin d'Australie  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Eisenholz  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• Strandkasuarine  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• casuarina  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• pinheiro-da-Austrália  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• casuarina-cinzenta  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• casuarina  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• kasuarina  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: erosion control (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:86-87. 1997)
• Environmental: ornamental (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
• Environmental: shade/shelter (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:86-87. 1997)
• Fuels: fuelwood (fide Firewood Cr)
• Materials: fiber (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:87. 1997)
• Materials: wood (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:87. 1997)
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Tropical

• INDO-CHINA: India, [Andaman and Nicobar] Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales (n.e.), Queensland (n. & e.)]

Pacific

• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, Vanuatu


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Reunion
• Africa

Asia-Temperate

• EASTERN ASIA: Japan

Northern America

• United States (s.e.)

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: U.S. Outlying Islands, [Midway Islands] United States [Hawaii]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Pitcairn
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Wallis and Futuna Islands

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: West Indies
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador [Galapagos Islands]

References:

1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
2. Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas (Pl Invasion) 255-267.
3. Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants (Pl Res SEAs) 11:86.
4. George, A. S., ed. 1989. Flora of Australia. 1980- (F Aust) 3:104.
5. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
6. Henderson, L. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. 2001 (Weeds SAfr 2001)
7. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource). (Pacif I Ecosyst Risk)
8. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS) Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). (Aust Pl Common Names)
9. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
10. Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source (Phytologia) 85:106.
11. National Academy of Sciences Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. 1980 (Firewood Cr)
12. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
13. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003 (Invasive Pl Spec)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=9553. Accessed 7 junio 2026.