Common Name

Slender Glasswort

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 60cm tall.  Succulent stems.  Leafless.  Flowers about 4mm long, in spikes of 5-10 flower segments, about 2cm long, at the ends of the stems, or originating between the segments of the stems. 

Description and photo (as Pachycornia tenuis) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 276-277

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

Florabase photos:  http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/photo/31600

Photo of flowering plant. Photographer Chris Lindorf, west of Mildura, Vic