Allocasuarina diminuta subsp. diminuta

Dioecious or monoecious shrub or small tree, 1–5 m tall, penultimate branchlets woody. Bark smooth. Branchlets ascending, to 23 cm long; internodes 5–12 mm long, 0.6–1.1 mm diam., smooth, often waxy, glabrous in furrows; ribs rounded, sometimes becoming angular. Teeth 6–9, erect to spreading, 0.3–0.5 mm long, usually not overlapping, not withered. Male spikes 5–50 mm long, 5–10 whorls per cm; anther 0.5–0.8 mm long; bracteoles persistent. Cones cylindric, usually longer than broad, on peduncle 2–10 mm long; cone body 5–20 mm long, 5–12 mm diam.; valves usually in several rows, hardly extending beyond cone body, truncate to broadly acute, pyramidal protuberance shorter than bracteole body. Winged seeds 3.5–5 mm long, dark brown.