Decumbent to rounded, often glaucous short-lived perennial, branched from base, to c. 20 cm high and 50 cm diam., stems minutely pubescent in axils. Leaves rather crowded, linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–6 mm long, semi-terete or slightly concave on the upper surface. Fruiting perianth sessile or with a short, narrowed, hollow base; the body subglobular, c. 1.5 mm diam., keeled on one side, the keel produced into an apical protuberance c. 0.5 mm long. Fruits mostly Aug.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP. Also WA, NT, SA, NSW. Locally abundant on heavy clay and loam soils at margins of lakes, salt-pans and billabongs of the Murray River north-west from Swan Hill area.
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.
