Family: Amaranthaceae
Atriplex eardleyae
Citation:
Aellen, Candollea 12:153 (1949).
Synonymy: A. campanulata Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:177 (1870), nom. illegit., non J. Woods (1850).
Common name: Small saltbush.
Description:
Decumbent to erect perennial herb to 30 cm high, monoecious; leaves sessile, elliptic to orbicular, c. 10 mm long, entire; base cuneate and passing into a short petiole or subsessile.
Male flowers in small glomerules in the distal leaf axils usually with a few female flowers; female flowers in scattered glomerules along the branches.
Fruiting bracteoles with a compressed narrow-campanulate to deltoid tube c. 1-2 mm long, which expands into appressed fan-shaped to reniform reticulate sinuate valves more or less equal in length to the tube, the adaxial valve slightly shorter than the abaxial; tube with a pair of small leaf-like appendages on the adaxial surface near the base or these sometimes lacking; pedicel slender or stout, shorter than to slightly exceeding the length of the tube.
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Image source: fig. 150i in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP. W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: all months.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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