Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Einadia nutans

Flowers, fruit, and leaves (subsp. nutans). Photographer Don Wood, near Pambula

Fruiting stems (subsp. nutans). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Jindabyne

Plant (subsp. nutans) Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Climbing saltbush, Nodding saltbush

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and shrubland.

subsp. linifolia Sydney area.

subsp. nutans Widespread

Notes

Perennial herb or climber with a woody base, prostrate, sprawling, or to 1 m tall.  Leaves 0.5-3 cm long, to 20 mm wide, alternating up the stems or opposite each other, hairless, scurfy when young, broadly triangular or linear, margins entire, tips pointed.  Flowers 1 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, with 4-5 lobes. Fruit red, orange, or yellow, sometimes pink, in small clusters up the stems.

subsp. linifolia has linear leaves.

Data deficient Vic..

subsp. nutans has at least some arrow-shaped or spear-shaped leaves.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description of species and key to subspecies:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Einadia~nutans  (accessed 12 January, 2021)