Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Atriplex suberecta
Sprawling saltbush
Chenopodiaceae
Pastures, roadsides, disturbed sites, and near streams and lakes. Western Slopes.
Annual or perennial herb or shrub, sprawling or to 0.6 m tall. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-6 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, somewhat scurfy, upper surface sometimes green, margins toothed or with shallow and pointed lobes, and wavy or flat. Male and female flowers on the same plant, small. Male flowers with 5 'petals', lacking bracteoles. Female flowers usually with 0 'petals', but subtended by a pair of diamond-shaped bracteoles which enlarge and cover the seed case at maturity. Flowers in clusters at the bases of the leaves.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Atriplex~suberecta (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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