Maireana trichoptera

(J.M.Black) Paul G.Wilson
Nuytsia 2: 31 (1975)
Taxonomic status Accepted
Occurrence status Present
Origin Native
Degree of establishment Native

Ascending to erect shrub, to c. 50 cm high; branchlets woolly-tomentose. Leaves alternate, semi-terete or narrowly clavate, 5–12 mm long, often slightly upcurved, fleshy, pubescent with fine, semi-appressed hairs. Flowers bisexual, often forming leafy spikes at branch-tips, woolly all over. Fruiting perianth c. 10–12 mm diam., pubescent over most of the upper surface and usually around base, flat at apex; tube obconical, c. 2–3.5 mm wide at apex, thin-walled in upper half, constricted about midway, expanded and firmly spongy below, the point of attachment (sometimes obliquely) sunken within base; wing circular, flat, often satiny pink when fresh; radicular slit obvious on wing but hardly extending down tube. Fruits Sep.–Dec.

LoM, MuM, MSB, RobP, Gold. Also WA, NT, SA, NSW. Occasional in the far north-west of Victoria on deep sands with mallee eucalypts or on heavier loamy soils in e.g. Belah (Casuarina pauper) woodlands.

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.

Updated by: Val Stajsic, 15 Nov. 2019
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