Maireana rohrlachii
(Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.WilsonUsually a spindly, divaricately branched shrub to c. 1 m high; branchlets rather densely covered with short cottony hairs. Leaves alternate, linear to narrowly ovoid or obovoid, 2–8 mm long, fleshy, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs when young. Flowers bisexual, glabrous or ciliate on margins of lobes. Fruiting perianth 11–16 mm diam.; tube broadly obconical, c. 4 mm diam., thin-walled, truncate at apex; wing usually undulate, finely but indistinctly veined; radicular slit present on wing, often extending at least part way down tube. Fruits Jan.–Apr.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, Gold, GGr. Also SA, NSW. In Victoria largely confined to the north-west and not common (e.g. Horsham, Mt Jephcott, Charlton, Wyperfeld National Park, Chinkapook, Kerang areas), often on slightly saline and/or gypseous, sandy loam soils, often fringing lakes or in seasonally wet areas.
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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