Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 4:232 (1983).

Synonymy: Chenopodium eremaeum

Common name: None

Description:
Rounded shrub to 2 m high; leaves alternate; lamina ovate to elliptic, 0.5-1.5 cm long, glabrescent above and mealy below with minute irregularly shaped hairs; petiole about half the length of the lamina.

Inflorescence spicate to paniculate, with the flowers continuous along its branches; perianth densely mealy; male flowers caducous; perianth globular, c. 1.5 mm diam.; filaments united into a thick saucer-shaped disc pubescent within; female flower: perianth eventually hard and spreading beneath the fruit, red above; staminodes present in the terminal flower, absent in the others.

Seed c. 1.3 mm diam.; testa reticulate.

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

Published illustration: G. F. Craig (1983) Pilbara coastal flora, p. 51.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: recorded mainly May — Oct.

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

Biology: No text

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