Maireana obrienii
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| Maireana obrienii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Maireana |
| Species: | M. obrienii |
| Binomial name | |
| Maireana obrienii | |
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Maireana sp. (Tara T.J.McDonald 76) | |
Maireana obrienii is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with mostly glabrous branchlets, fleshy, narrowly oval to club-shaped leaves, bisexual flowers and a fruiting perianth with a flat wing with a pink margin.
Maireana obrienii is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 80 cm (31 in) and has glabrous branchlets, except for tufts of hairs in leaf axils. The leaves are arranged alternately and fleshy, narrowly oval to club-shaped, mostly 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long and glabrous. The flowers are bisexual, the fruiting perianth 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) in diameter with a thin-walled, shallowly hemispherical tube 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) high in diameter with a more or less flat wing with a rosy-pink margin and a radial slit.[2][3][4]