Wingless Bluebush

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Maireana enchylaenoides

Low spreading herb growing to 20 cm tall and 60 cm wide. Leaves hairy, narrow, oblong shaped, up to 10 mm long. The fruit is covered by five overlapping crescent-shaped wings, turning black as it matures.

Details
Flora Type
Chenopods
Distinctive Features

Grey-green softly hairy almost succulent leaves.
Biology

Perennial. Commonly found in grasslands, woodlands and shrublands, usually in drier soils.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Fruits Oct-Jan.
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Genus
Maireana
Species
enchylaenoides

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Plants may be infected by an organism causing the production of cottony galls to 1 cm in diameter or more in the upper axils. After the French botanist Charles Lemaire (1800-1871) who specialised in the Cacti family.

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native