Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 4:183 (1983).

Synonymy: D. myriocephala Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:165 (1870); Chenopodium myriocephalum (Benth.) Aellen, Bot. Jb. 63:488 (1930).

Common name: Red crumbweed.

Description:
Prostrate to erect annual or short-lived perennial to 15 cm high, branching from the base, sparsely covered with sessile or stipitate gland-tipped hairs; leaves narrow- to broad-elliptic, entire; lamina c. 5 mm long; petiole slender, about half the length of the lamina.

Flowers in dense axillary glomerules; terminal flower of each glomerule bisexual; perianth-segments 3, obovate, hooded, c. 0.7 mm long, green, fleshy except for the scarious margin, glabrous or almost so, free or shortly united at the base; stamens 2; style 1 or 2; lateral flowers of each glomerule female; perianth-segments 1 or 2, with a white bladdery hooded limb and a filamentous to linear claw.

Fruiting perianth: perianth-segments 0.7-1 mm long; limb inflated, covering the fruit; pericarp dull, adherent, minutely punctulate, papillate, or granulate; seed erect, bluntly ellipsoid or compressed-obovoid, c. 0.5 mm long; embryo slightly curved on the dorsal-lateral margin beneath the embryo groove; radicle inferior.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 264.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Seed compressed-obovoid to bluntly lenticular; pericarp smooth or rarely papillate	subsp. glomulifera 1a.
1. Seed ellipsoid; pericarp granulate	subsp. eremaea 1b.

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