Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tecticornia arbuscula
Common name
None
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Where found
Salt marshes and other saline sites. Coastal south of Nowra.
Notes
Perennial herb or shrub to about 2 m tall. Fleshy stems and the bracts around the flowers. Stems hairless, glaucous or dull green, segmented. The fleshy part of the stems eventually shrivelling and falling away leaving the woody middle. Leaves opposite each other, reduced to dry membranous lobes. Flowers in 3s, the middle flower bisexual, the lateral flowers male. Flowers tiny (less than 3 mm in diameter), with 2-3 'petals', the flowers fused to each other and to the bract above, and forming spikes 3-12 mm long, comprised of 2–6 segments similar to but shorter than the non-flowering segments. Flowers mostly Jul.–Sep. Seed cases dry, hard.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tecticornia~arbuscula (accessed 9 February, 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
