Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Tecticornia pergranulata subsp. pergranulata

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Shrub. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

None

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Where found

Salt marshes on the Parramatta River, Sydney area.

Notes

Shrub or perennial herb to about 1 m tall or sprawling.  Fleshy stems, flowers, and the bracts around the flowers. Seed cases fleshy, spongy, or papery with a pithy interior. Stems dull or glaucous. Leafless. Flowers bisexual, or some plants with only female flowers. Flowers tiny (less than 3 mm in diameter), with 2 lobes, forming spikes to 5 cm long. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tecticornia~pergranulata (accessed 9 February, 2021)