Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Suaeda australis

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, near Batemans Bay

Flowering and fruiting stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Mimosa Rocks National Park east of Bega

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Mimosa Rocks National Park east of Bega

Common name

Austral Seablite, Seablite

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Where found

Coastal shorelines, salt marshes, and the margins of tidal streams. Coastal.

Notes

Shrubby perennial herb to 1 m tall, hairless. Leaves fleshy, fruit slightly fleshy. leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 0.7-5 cm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, flattened cylindrical to triangular or flat in cross section, tips pointed or blunt. Flowers tiny (less than 3 mm in diameter), bisexual or sometimes unisexual, with 5 'petals' joined at the base, in axillary clusters. Fruit reddish brown, to 2 mm in diameter. Flowers and fruits most of the year.

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