Erect, more or less conical annual to c. 1 m high, glabrous or with minute sparse hairs on young branches. Leaves oblong to narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, acute, 5–15 mm long, 1–2 mm wide. Flower clusters apparently attached to petioles up to c. 1 mm above leaf axils; perianth of female flowers virtually entire, bisexual flowers lobed in upper half, anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Fruiting perianth thin, broadly obovoid, c. 1.5 mm long, closely enveloping seed; seed erect, flattened-ovoid, c. 1.5 mm long, testa black, minutely granular (visible at ×20 magnification), remaining enclosed in pericarp. Flowers ?Jan.–Mar.
MuM. Native to Eurasia. Apparently collected only twice in Australia, from roadsides in Irymple and Red Cliffs, both near Mildura.
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.
