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Maireana melanocoma, commonly known as pussy bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is weak, diffuse, much-branched, mostly glabrous shrub with slender branches, more or less terete to spindle-shaped leaves, flowers in spike-like groups, and a glabrous pale green to gold or pale red fruiting perianth that turns black as it ages, with a horizontal wing covered with erect, hair-like processes.
Pussy bluebush grows in clay loam and rocky soils on hillslopes and a variety of other habitats in the Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison and Pilbara bioregions of north-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana melanocoma 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.
