Chenopodium murale
L. SowbaneErect, sometimes fetid annual to c. 1 m high. Leaves petiolate, deltoid, ovate or broadly trullate, 1–8 cm long, 0.5–5 cm wide, margins irregularly toothed or shallowly lobed, each tooth or lobe terminated by a slightly incurved point, mealy when young but usually becoming glabrous. Flowers bisexual and female, densely clustered or rather loosely arranged in axillary and terminal panicles; tepals 5, slightly mealy, united below midway; stamens 5; pericarp membranous, persistent. Seed horizontal, blackish, 1–1.5 mm diam., acute around equator, falling with perianth attached. Flowers mostly Sep.–May.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, VAlp. Naturalized all States, widely throughout world. Native to Europe, Asia. Chiefly a weed of disturbed subsaline and low-rainfall areas, apparently uncommon in the far east of the State. .
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.
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