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Maireana dichoptera is a small, erect, woolly-branched perennial shrub from the arid interior of Queensland and the Northern Territory, grown mainly for its native and xeric value. It is a drought-adapted saltbush relative that needs open, sunny, well-drained conditions.
Maireana dichoptera is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect perennial plant with woolly branches, linear leaves with shaggy hairs pressed against the surface, bisexual flowers arranged singly or in pairs, and a thin-walled fruiting perianth with a six vertical wings on top of a horizontal wing.
Maireana dichoptera is found in central and southern Queensland and in the Mitchell Grass Downs bioregion of the Northern Territory near the Queensland border.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana dichoptera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
