Family: Amaranthaceae
Atriplex stipitata
Citation:
Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:168 (1870).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Bitter saltbush, mallee (or kidney) saltbush.
Description:
Erect shrub to 1 m high, predominantly dioecious; leaves narrow-elliptic to orbicular, entire, obtuse or rounded at the apex, sometimes conduplicate and recurved when dry with a scaly sheen on both surfaces; lamina 7-25 mm long; petiole 2-3 mm long.
Male flowers in small disjunct glomerules forming spikes or panicles; female flowers in well-spaced clusters forming slender spikes.
Fruiting bracteoles on a slender pedicel to 10 mm long; valves reniform, cordate, to 5 mm long and 10 mm wide, thin, appressed, joined at the base to form a compressed turbinate tube, appendages absent; seed with a lateral erect radicle.
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Image source: fig. 151n in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 245, fig. 44/28.
Distribution:
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W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: all months.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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