Chenopodium desertorum
Prostrate or erect annual or perennial, variably mealy grey. Leaves opposite or alternate, sessile or petiolate, deltoid to almost circular, c. 5–10 mm long, margins entire, mealy grey-white on lower or both surfaces. Flowers clustered, in short spikes or panicles; terminal flowers male or bisexual, lateral flowers female; tepals 5, densely mealy on outer surface, shortly united at base or to near midway; stamens 5, united at base; pericarp membranous or thinly succulent, persistent. Seed horizontal, black, 1–1.5 mm diam., smooth or granular, remaining enclosed by fruiting perianth at maturity.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGU, VAlp.
4 subspecies in Victoria.
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
