Chenopodium auricomum Lindl.

Soft-wooded bluish-grey shrub to 2 m high. Leaves with slender petiole c. 1 cm long, oblong-elliptic to hastate; lamina mostly 2–4 cm long, the basal lobes and apex rounded; upper surface glabrescent; lower surface with a thin, mealy, grey to very pale yellow indumentum. Inflorescence a broad panicle c. 10 cm long with ovoid to cylindrical branches; axis villous with tubular hairs. Flowers bisexual, sessile, depressed-globular, c. 1 mm diam. Perianth united in lower half, pubescent with irregular tubular and vesicular hairs; lobes imbricate, broadly obovate, ciliolate. Stamens 5; disc absent. Fruit enveloped by perianth. Pericarp papery, free, white. Seed usually horizontal, lenticular, c. 1.5 mm diam. with rounded margin; testa minutely reticulate.

It grows in tropical and subtropical places. It grows on clays on inland drainage areas in Australia. It will grow on most soils in full sun. It can withstand frost and drought. It grows in areas with a rainfall of about 200 mm per year. It can grow in arid places.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings.