Maireana lanosa
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| Maireana lanosa | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Maireana |
| Species: | M. lanosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Maireana lanosa | |
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Maireana lanosa, commonly known as woolly bluebush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a small, widely branched shrub with woolly branches, elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and bisexual flowers arranged singly, the glabrous fruiting perianth tube-shaped with a wing with erect processes.
Maireana lanosa is a small, widely branched shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in) and has branches covered with woolly hairs. Its leaves are arranged alternately, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long in the upper fruiting branches and 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long in the lower branches, and covered with soft, silky hairs. The flowers are bisexual, arranged singly and densely covered with woolly hairs. The fruiting perianth is leathery to crusty, with a slightly convex tube 1 mm (0.039 in) high and 2.5 mm (0.098 in) wide at the top, and glabrous. The wing is simple, horizontal and 7–12 mm (0.28–0.47 in) in diameter with a single slit and six linear to tapering processes 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long.[3][4][5][6]