Family: Amaranthaceae
Maireana melanocarpa
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:52 (1975).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Much branched shrub c. 50 cm high; branchlets woolly; leaves alternate, spreading, semiterete, 3-5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, woolly, rounded at the apex.
Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous apart from the woolly ciliate margins to the lobes.
Fruiting perianth dark-brown to black when dry, glabrous; tube shortly hemispherical, c. 1 mm high and c. 2 mm diam., faintly costate, firmly crustaceous; wing simple, horizontal, to 6 mm diam., with prominent dark-brown venation and a single radical slit; upper perianth thickened and convex around the margin, thin and sunken in the centre.
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Image source: fig. 159t in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Found on sandy rises around salt lakes.
S.Aust.: LE, FR.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: May — Sept.
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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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