Fruting bodies and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Eyre Peninsula, SA

Fruting bodies and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: M Phillips, Balladonia, WA

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: M Phillips, Balladonia, WA

Common Name

Rosy Bluebush

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 1.5m tall.  Leaves succulent, alternating up the stems, to 1cm long, flat to club-shaped, hairless, with rounded tips.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Fruiting body green, pink, or red, brownish when dry, hairless, with a single horizontal wing with one radial slit, and 5 vertical wings on the underside.

Description and photo (page 268) and line drawing of fruiting body (Fig. 47-12 page 271) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Maireana~erioclada