Maireana rohrlachii
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| Maireana rohrlachii | |
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| In the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Maireana |
| Species: | M. rohrlachii |
| Binomial name | |
| Maireana rohrlachii (Paul.G.Wilson) Paul.G.Wilson[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Kochia rohrlachii Paul G.Wilson | |
Maireana rohrlachii, commonly known as Rohrlach's bluebush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an intricately branched shrub with its branchlets covered with woolly hairs, mostly unisexual flowers and a glabrous fruiting perianth with a broadly top-shaped to hemispherical tube and a thinly papery wing.
Maireana rohrlachii is an intricately branched shrub or subshrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has thin branches with woolly hairs. Its leaves are arranged alternately, fleshy, oval to narrowly spindle-shaped, 3–8 mm (0.12–0.31 in) long. The flowers are unisexual and arranged singly and glabrous, the fruiting perianth glabrous and pale brown why dry. The tube is broadly top-shaped to hemispherical, about 2 mm (0.079 in) high and 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter, thin-walled and easily crushed. The wing is thinly papery, horizontal and 12–16 mm (0.47–0.63 in) in diameter.[3][4][5][6]