Citation: Moq. in A. DC., Prod. 13, 2:52 (1849).

Synonymy: Chenopodium drummondii

Common name: None

Description:
Open often scrambling shrub to 1.5 m high; leaves opposite or alternate, somewhat fleshy, narrow-elliptic to elliptic, shortly petiolate; lamina 7-10 rarely to 15 mm long, 2-3 rarely to 4 mm wide, acute, glabrescent above, densely mealy below with grey saucer-shaped vesicular hairs.

Inflorescences spicate or paniculate, to 2.5 cm long; perianth densely mealy; male flowers: staminal filaments united into a fleshy disc which is woolly within; female: terminal flowers with minute staminodes and a disc, slightly woolly; lateral flowers glabrous within, lacking staminodes and a disc.

Fruiting perianth eventually spreading, pale-fawn or red within; seed c. 1.8 mm diam., faintly radially rugulose.

	Rhagodia drummondii twig and seed
Image source: fig. 164c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  in somewhat saline soil around salt lakes. S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: not available.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available