Family: Amaranthaceae
Chenopodium desertorum ssp. desertorum
Synonymy: Chenopodium microphyllum Common name: Desert (or frosted) goosefoot.
Description:
Erect rounded much branched herb to 20 cm high; leaves densely covered when young with colourless glistening transparent branched vesicular hairs; lamina deltoid to orbicular, 3-8 mm long.
Inflorescence congested or lax, narrow-pyramidal or slender, exceeding the terminal leaves; flowers 1.5-2 mm diam., perianth with a felty indumentum of glistening vesicular hairs; seed c. 1.5 mm diam.
| Chenopodium desertorum subsp. desertorum twig and fruiting periant-segment
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Image source: fig. 153c 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.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL. W.Aust.; N.T.; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Flowering time: probably all months.
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Biology:
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Author:
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