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Maireana microcarpa, commonly known as swamp bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to south-eastern, continental Australia. It is a weakly upright shrub with slender branches covered with woolly white hairs when young, fleshy, terete leaves, flowers arranged singly and a dark brown or pale, tube-shaped fruiting perianth with a simple wing.
Swamp bluebush usually grows on claypans in western New South Wales, northern South Australia, southern Northern Territory and south-western Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana microcarpa 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.
