Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Chenopodium erosum

Common name

 Papery Goosefoot, Papery gooseneck

Family

Chenopodiacae

Where found

Woodland, heath, shrubland, grassland, disturbed sites, and near streams. Kosciuszko National Park. Rarely elsewhere. Appears to require fire for germination.

Notes

Annual herb to 1.5 m high, occasionally sprawling to prostrate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–20 cm long and 5-100 mm wide, thin, papery, green and hairless, margins raggedly toothed. Flowers bisexual at the tops of the stems, female lower down. Flowers slightly mealy when young, with 5 'petals' free from each other almost to the base, each 1.5–2 mm long  Flowers in small to large clusters. Flowers Dec.–Feb. Seed cases membranous.

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chenopodium~erosum (accessed 7 January, 2021)