Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Atriplex cinerea
Common name
Grey saltbush, Coast saltbush
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Where found
Beaches, coastal dunes, and salty areas near the sea.
Notes
Shrub to about 1.8 m high. The whole plant mealy, grey or silvery to grey-green. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5 to about 10 cm long, 8–25 mm wide, broadly lance head shaped to oblong, margins entire, rarely coarsely toothed. Male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant, small. Male flowers with 5 'petals', lacking bracteoles. Female flowers usually with 0 'petals', but subtended by a pair of bracteoles, fused near the base, which enlarge and cover the seed case at maturity. Male flowers in dense globular clusters commonly continuous along simple or branched spikes. Female flowers clustered at the base of the upper leaves.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Atriplex~cinerea (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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