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Maireana lobiflora
Maireana lobiflora, commonly known as lobed bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a prostrate or low-lying perennial herb or shrub with woolly branches, very narrowly elliptic leaves, and bisexual flowers arranged singly, the fruiting perianth with a wing with five fan-shaped lobes and erect processes.
Maireana lobiflora grows in sandy soils in low-lying areas, on river flats and on limestone in all mainly states of Australia and the Northern Territory. In Western Australia it occurs in the Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Great Sandy Desert, Hampton, Little Sandy Desert, Mallee, Murchison and Nullarbor bioregions, in South Australia in the Broken Hill Complex, Eyre Yorke Block, Flinders Lofty Block, Gawler, Great Victoria Desert, Murray Darling Depression, Nullarbor and Stony Plains bioregions, in the Northern Territory in the Burt Plain, Finke, Gawler, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, MacDonnell Ranges, Murray Darling Depression and Stony Plains bioregions, and also in Queensland, the western Plains of New South Wales and the far north-west of Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana lobiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
