Intricately branched shrub to c. 2 m high. Articles of ultimate branches obovoid, 3–10 mm long, bright green, glaucous or reddish; lobes obtuse, often narrowly keeled and slightly incurved, margins entire. Spikes terminal, 3–12 mm long, comprising 2–6 articles similar to but shorter than vegetative ones; flowers fused to each other and to bract above. Fruiting spike not long persistent; fruiting perianth shrivelled, pericarp thick and hard, deltoid in lateral view, tapered to the persistent exserted style; seed elliptic, c. 1.5 mm long, testa smooth. Flowers mostly Jul.–Sep.
MuM, Brid, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, EGL, WPro, OtR, Strz. Also WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Also isolated records from Portland, Port Fairy and Mallacoota areas.
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.
