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

Satiny Bluebush

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub to 60cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, succulent, more or less cylindrical, 0.5-1cm long, hairy to sparsely hairy, tips blunt.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Fruiting body orange or red to brown, hairless, with a single horizontal wing with no radial slit.

Description (page 276) and line drawing of fruiting body (Fig. 47-33 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~turbinata