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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Amaranthaceae
Maireana campanulata

Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:37 (1975).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small shrub to 60 cm high; branchlets with a thin tomentum of pale-fawn cured shortly branched hairs; leaves slender-terete, acute, 8-15 mm long, fleshy, glaucous, glabrous.

Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous.

Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube cup-shaped, c. 6 mm high and wide, spongy; wing thin, horizontal, entire, very narrow, c. 10 mm diam., with no radial slit.

image of FSA1_Maireana_cam.jpg Maireana campanulata fruits
Image source: fig. 159e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 266.

Distribution:  Found principally on rocky slopes and in other well-drained situations.

S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA.   N.T.; Qld.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: July — Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
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Biology: No text

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