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Family: Amaranthaceae
Maireana cannonii

Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:42 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia cannonii J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 43:29 (1919).

Common name: None

Description:
Small much-branched shrub; branchlets closely woolly; leaves opposite, sessile, semiterete, 5-6 mm long; with a short silky indumentum, base shortly spurred, apex recurved.

Flowers solitary, bisexual, densely pubescent.

Fruiting perianth strongly depressed, sparsely pubescent above, glabrous below; attachment broad and flat; tube dish-shaped, c. 2.5 mm diam., crustaceous; wing simple, circular, horizontal, thin, c. 6 mm diam., with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth slightly convex; style hard and exserted.

image of FSA1_Maireana_can.jpg Maireana cannonii fruits
Image source: fig. 159f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EP.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Sept. — April.


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