Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:39 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia triptera Benth. var. erioclada Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:185 (1870); K. erioclada (Benth.)Gauba, Victorian Nat. 65:163 (1948).

Common name: Rosy bluebush.

Description:
Shrub to 60 cm high; branches closely white-woolly; leaves alternate, fleshy, narrow-obovoid to clavate, to 10 mm long, glabrous, apex rounded.

Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous apart from the woolly-ciliate lobes.

Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube narrowly funnel-shaped (the lower half solid), c. 5 mm high, with 5 vertical semicircular wings that are attached to the horizontal wing and to the tube throughout its length; horizontal wing at the apex of the tube, simple, c. 12 mm diam., radially sulcate at the attachment to the vertical wings and with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth convex, glabrous apart from the ciliate margin to the lobes.

	Maireana erioclada
Image source: pl. 10 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	Maireana erioclada fruit
Image source: fig. 159m 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. 268.

Distribution:  A frequent invader of disturbed road verges. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: July — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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