Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Einadia hastata

Fruiting stems. Photographer Don Wood, north of Milton

Flowering stems. Photographer Arthur Chapman, Werribee Gorge State Park near Bacchus Marsh, Vic

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Urunga south of Coffs Harbour

Common name

Berry saltbush,  Saloop

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Where found

Woodland, grassy areas, and rocky sites. Widespread.

Notes

Rounded shrub or perennial herb to about 0.5 m diameter, or prostrate, occasionally straggling with branches to about 1 m long. Fruit thinly fleshy. Leaves usually somewhat fleshy, opposite or almost opposite each other, or alternating up the stems, 1-4 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, triangular or broad with the base with two pointed diverging lobes, about as long as wide, surfaces usually hairless, tips blunt. Flowers about 1 mm in diameter, with 5 'petals'. Flowers in loose to tight clusters. Flowers mostly Nov.–Mar. Fruit red or black, 2-3 mm in diameter.

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

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