Maireana radiata
(Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.WilsonErect, grey shrub to c. 75 cm high; stems densely white-woolly. Leaves alternate, erect or appressed to branches, narrowly ovate, 2–4 mm long, plano-convex or obscurely keeled abaxially, fleshy, variably covered with whitish, short curled hairs. Flowers bisexual, sometimes forming dense leafy spikes toward tips of branchlets, woolly in upper half, glabrous. Fruiting perianth 4–6 mm diam., convex and densely white-woolly at apex; tube hemispherical to broadly obconical, c. 1.5 mm diam., glabrous, thin-walled but crustaceous; wing horizontal, papery, virtually transparent except for conspicuous brown, mostly unbranched radial veins; radicular slit apparent on wing but not extending onto tube.
LoM, MuM, MSB. Also WA, SA, NSW. In Victoria restricted to the far north-west (e.g. Neds Corner, Red Cliffs, Raak Plain, Annuello etc.) but locally not uncommon, usually occurring on sandy rises in mallee woodland, but occasionally on saline flats or depressions.
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.
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