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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.

image of FSA1_Maireana_pyr.jpg Maireana pyramidata fruit
Image source: fig 160g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

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:  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.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: probably in all months.


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