Amaranthaceae
Atriplex

Atriplex muelleri Benth.

First published in Fl. Austral. 5: 175 (1870)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Central & E. Australia. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Chenopodiaceae, J. P. M. Brenan. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1954

Morphology General Habit
Herb, annual or perhaps longer-living, sometimes slightly woody, ascending to erect, up to about 0.7 m. high, grey to grey-green, more or less mealy, often densely so.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves in outline spathulate to elliptic or rhombic-ovate, mostly 1–6 (–7) cm. long, 0.5–4 cm. wide, mostly obtuse to subtruncate at apex, gradually tapering at base, normally with 1–4 coarse teeth on each margin.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers clustered in leaf-axils, upper clusters male or mixed, lower female.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruiting bracteoles normally almost sessile, their basal connate part 1–2 mm. long obconical or campanulate and becoming thick, hard and pale; free apical part of each bracteole semicircular to triangular in outline, 2–3 mm. long, 2.5–4.5 mm. wide, acute or subacute at apex, with normally 1–4 little teeth on each margin; bracteoles in centre smooth or venose, not at all tuberculate or muricate.
Habitat
In colonies near stables, presumably a weed; about 1830 m.
Distribution
native of Australiaintroduced elsewhere, and naturalized in South Africa K3
[FTEA]

Sources

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