Suaeda baccifera
Pall. Berry SeabliteProcumbent or weakly erect annual or short-lived perennial, to c. 0.3 m high, glabrous, glaucous or grey-green, sometimes tinged pink. Leaves linear, acute, 5–15 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, margins narrowly membranous, transparent. Flower clusters axillary, forming rather dense leafy panicles; perianth of bisexual and female flowers similar, lobed from about midway; anthers c. 0.3 mm long. Fruiting perianth of at least bisexual flowers with inflated segments, depressed-globular, to c. 3 mm diam., anthers c. 0.5–0.8 mm long, female flowers with or without inflated segments, seed usually erect, sometimes horizontal; seed lenticular, 1–1.5 mm diam., testa black or dark reddish-brown, minutely reticulate (visible at ×20 magnification), falling free from pericarp. Flowers mostly Nov.–Mar.
MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, Strz. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW. Native to Eurasia. Occasional in coastal and inland halophytic shrubland communities, often in association with Suaeda australis and Tecticornia species.
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.