Citation: Karsten, Deutsche Fl. 641 (1882). Athel pine, athel tamarix, athel tree.

Synonymy: Thuja aphylla L., Cent. l. Pl. 32 (1755).

Common name: None

Description:
Glabrous much-branched shrubs or trees to 6 m high; branches slender, hoary; leaves densely imbricate on younger parts, concealing the branchlets, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat keeled, usually less than 1 mm long.

Flowers in spikes to 2 cm long, with a sheath of leaf-like bracts round the base of the calyx, pinkish; sepals 5, up to 1 mm long, broadly elliptic; petals 5, c. 1.5 mm long, oblong; disk slightly fleshy, 10-lobed; stamens 5; filaments filiform; anther connective produced above the lobes; styles 3, c. 0.5 mm long.

Capsule trigonous.

	Tamarix aphylla
Image source: fig 454b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Zohary (1972) Flora Palaestina 2:t. 522.

Distribution:  Grown as an ornamental and occasionally persisting or locally naturalised. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, MU.   Qld.   Native to Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: spring.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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