Malacocera albolanata (Ising) Chinnock

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Malacocera

Characteristics

Shrub to 40 cm high. Branches slender, densely white-woolly. Leaves spreading, narrowly linear or semiterete, 6–18 mm long, densely villous when young, glabrous with age. Flowers paired in leaf axils, densely woolly. Fruiting perianths depressed; processes slender, terete, 2.5–4.5 mm long, 3 major and 2 minor or all of same length, with a Y-or star-shaped configuration, densely white-woolly.
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Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Grows in depressions andclay pans.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Malacocera albolanata world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:166141-1
WFO ID wfo-0001295217
COL ID 3XKFW
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Synonyms

Sclerolaena albolanata Malacocera albolanata