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.

	Atriplex stipitata. Fruits.
Image source: fig. 151n 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. 245, fig. 44/28.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: all months.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available