Liz, I would classify most eucalyptus spp. as deciduous (though judging by your genus compositions you're in Australia, and I don't know what the species do there), and probably classify casuarina spp as coniferous... but that's a bad classification system. That's like saying "this apple is green, that grapefruit is citrus." There are deciduous conifers, and evergreen broadleafs. Coniferous doesn't even account for all of the needleleaf trees.. The wiki should probably be suggesting deciduous, evergreen and mixed. . .
Adopting the UNEP-WCMC broad categories [1] would make much more sense than the current bad wiki suggestions. and adopting the more specific categories would cover a vast majority of forests. [1] http://www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/fp_background.htm#
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