Fruiting bodies and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruiting bodies and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Three-winged Bluebush, Three-wing Bluebush

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 70cm tall.  Leaves succulent, alternating up the stems, to 1cm long, narrow flattened cylindrical, hairless, pointed.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Fruiting body pink, black, orange, red, or green, dark brown to black when dry, hairless, with a single horizontal wing with no radial slit, and 3-5 vertical wings on the underside.  Rare Vic.

Description and photo (page 275) and line drawing of fruiting body (Fig. 47-32 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~triptera