Family: Amaranthaceae
Maireana pyramidata
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:41 (1975).
Synonymy: Kochia pyramidata Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:186 (1870).
Common name: Black bluebush, sago bush, shrubby bluebush.
Description:
Divaricately branched shrub c. 1 m high; branchlets woolly (sometimes sparsely so); leaves alternate, spreading, subterete, acute, 2-6 mm long, shortly appressed-pubescent (asperulous, woolly and scattered coarse smooth hairs).
Flowers predominantly unisexual, shortly woolly.
Fruiting perianth pale-brown to black when dry; tube flat to shortly turbinate, thin-walled and readily crushed, sparsely puberulent; wing papery, horizontal, simple, to 12 rarely to 16 mm diam., entire or with a single radial slit; upper perianth erect, pyramidal, 2-4 mm high, puberulous.
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Image source: fig 160g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 138; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 273.
Distribution:
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Often found in slightly saline heavy soil.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: probably in all months.
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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:
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Author:
Not yet available
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