Chenopodium desertorum subsp. microphyllum
Paul G.WilsonProstrate or decumbent perennial. Stems and leaves variably covered with globose or saucer-shaped vesicular hairs; leaves petiolate, ovate to circular, 3–10 mm long, mealy below, glabrescent above. Inflorescences not or only shortly exceeding leaves; tepals covered on outer surface with globoid or saucer-shaped vesicular hairs. Seed granular, 1–1.5 mm diam. Flowers all year but mostly Oct.–Mar.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGU. Also WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW. Locally common on heavier soils of north and west Victoria, with isolated occurrences west of Melbourne (e.g. Long Forest near Bacchus Marsh, Parwan, Eynesbury, Melton and Keilor North), and in the upper Snowy River area in the east.
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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