Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 408 (1810).

Synonymy: Chenopodium parabolicum

Common name: Fragrant (or mealy) saltbush.

Description:
Rounded shrub 1-2 m high; leaves mostly opposite; lamina thin, very broadly elliptic to broadly or very broadly ovate, rarely bluntly hastate, 1.5-4 cm long, acute to rounded at the apex, apiculate, truncate to cuneate at the base and passing into the slender petiole half to equal in length to the lamina, minutely mealy, becoming reddish-brown with age.

Inflorescence a broad pyramidal panicle 5-8 cm long; perianth mealy, c. 1 mm diam.; male flowers: filaments united into a cupular disc densely woolly on the margin; female flower: staminodes in terminal flowers united into a cupular disc densely woolly within, in lateral flowers reduced or absent.

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

Distribution:  Growing principally in rocky hillsides and creek banks. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: all months.

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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