Amyema maidenii (Blakely) Barlow

Plant erect or spreading, white-or brown-tomentose especially the inflorescence, sometimes adult leaves, bracts and peduncles nearly glabrous; epicortical runners absent. Leaves oblanceolate to ovate, rounded; lamina 2-6 cm long, 5-23 mm wide, attenuate or contracted at base into petiole 1-10 mm long. Inflorescence a pedunculate head of 2 sessile triads; flowers sessile; peduncle 10-30 mm long, dilated upwards; central bracts triangular to elliptic, 2-5 mm long; lateral bracts nearly orbicular, 2-3 mm long, concave. Calyx entire, 1 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender, 14-30 mm long, 5-merous, clavate, green. Anthers 1.5-3 mm long, c. 1/3 length of free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal, c. 8 mm long, constricted near apex.

They grow on acacia trees. The species are mostly Acacia aneura, Acacia harpophylla, and Acacia tetragonophylla. It grows in inland Australia. It can grow in arid places.

The fruit is eaten

Plants are grown by seed.