Erect or intricately branched, sometimes weakly spinescent shrub to c. 1.5 m high and wide. Leaves alternate, indistinctly petiolate, fleshy, fusiform to semi-terete, sometimes falcate, margins incurved, 10–25 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, mealy grey-green at least on lower surface. Inflorescence a slender panicle to c. 6 cm long; tepals mealy on outer surface, c. 1 mm long, enlarging slightly in fruit. Berry c. 4 mm diam., crimson at maturity, clasped by reddish fruiting perianth; seed black, granular, c. 2 mm diam. Flowers Aug.–Dec.
LoM, MuM. Also WA, SA. In Victoria localised and rather rare in the north-west, usually on loamy, often calcareous soils, less commonly on sand-ridges.
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.
