Erect shrub to c. 1 m high. Leaves elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 10–15 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, acute or obtuse at apex. Fruiting bracteoles free to base, orbicular, 6–11 mm long and wide, entire or with 2 broad teeth in upper half; appendages smaller than bracteoles or absent from one or both valves. Fruits mainly Sep.-Nov.
LoM, MuM, VVP, MSB, RobP. Also WA, NT, SA, NSW. Occurs chiefly around salt lakes and on seasonally wet salt-pans. The commonest of the subspecies in Victoria.
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.
