Domed or erect subshrub to c. 40 cm high. Stems and leaves densely covered when young with glistening, whitish, curled-linear, branched and globose hairs; leaves petiolate, deltoid to broadly obovate, 3–15 mm long. Inflorescences mostly exceeding terminal leaves; tepals covered on outer surface with hairs like those on foliage. Seed virtually smooth, c. 1.5 mm diam. Flowers Sep.–Apr.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, VAlp. Also WA, SA, Qld, NSW. In Victoria largely confined to the far north-west (Hattah and Wyperfeld National Parks, Annuello etc.) where occurring mainly on sand-ridges and apparently not common.
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.
