Prostrate or decumbent perennial, odorous (with the smell of rotting fish) when crushed. Stems and leaves densely covered with grey, globoid or saucer-shaped vesicular hairs; leaves petiolate, narrowly elliptic, acute to obtuse at apex. Inflorescence not exceeding terminal leaves; tepals covered on outer surface with globose or saucer-shaped vesicular hairs; pericarp membranous to succulent. Seed c. 1.5 mm diam.
MuM, Wim, VRiv, MuF, CVU. Also NSW. Until collected in 2008 at Pine Grove in northern Victoria, the taxon was recorded in Victoria on the basis of an 1878 collection purportedly from Daylesford, which may be a result of confusion of labels. Recently it has also been collected at Terrick Terrick National Park, and near Nathalia.
Source:
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.
