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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Maireana tomentosa

Citation: Moq., Chenop. Monogr. Enum. 97 (1840) subsp. urceolata Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:49 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia tomentosa F. Muell. var. enchylaenoides J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 47:368 (1923); K. enchylaenoides (J. Black)J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 51:379 (1927); Chenolea blackii Ewart, Fl. Vict. 462 (1931), nom. invalid.

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub 0.5 m high; branches woolly; leaves terete, 5-8 mm long, fleshy, woolly-villous.

Flowers solitary, bisexual.

Fruiting perianth glabrous, glossy; tube cup-shaped, 1-1.5 mm high, c. 2 mm diam., often constricted at the apex, smooth, woody; wing simple, horizontal, c. 10 mm diam., without a radial slit, straw-coloured when dry; upper perianth raised into a hard annular disc, woolly-ciliate but otherwise glabrous.

Distribution:    N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

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


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
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