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.
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Image source: fig. 159e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 266.
Distribution:
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Found principally on rocky slopes and in other well-drained situations.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA. N.T.; Qld.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: July — Nov.
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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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