Family: Amaranthaceae
Maireana rohrlachii
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:46 (1975).
Synonymy: Kochia rohrlachii Paul G. Wilson in H. Eichler, Suppl. 123 (1965).
Common name: None
Description:
Intricately branched shrub to 1 m high; branches slender, closely woolly; leaves alternate, obovoid to narrow-fusiform, 3-8 mm long, fleshy, glabrous.
Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous.
Fruiting perianth glabrous, pale-brown when dry; tube broadly turbinate to hemispherical, to 2 mm high and c. 3 mm diam. at the apex, thin-walled and readily crushed; wing simple, horizontal or undulate, thin, 12-16 mm diam., radially veined, with a single radial slit; upper perianth flat, thin.
Distribution:
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Found in heavy soil.
S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL. Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Dec. — June.
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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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