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Maireana murrayana

Maireana murrayana
Photo: Alfred James Ewart (1872–1937) & Bertha Rees, Public domain
Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. Australia

About

Maireana murrayana is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is shrub with its branchlets and leaves covered with woolly hairs, thick and fleshy, narrowly oblong to wedge-shaped leaves, bisexual, woolly, spherical flowers, and a glabrous fruiting perianth with a thin, horizontal wing.

Where it grows

Maireana murrayana grows on dissected sandstone and is only known from a few collections made between the upper Gascoyne and the Murchison Rivers in the Gascoyne and Murchison bioregions of north-western Western Australia.

Other Maireana plants

Bluebush · Maireana amoena · Cottonbush · Grey Bluebush · Low Bluebush · Maireana atkinsiana · Eastern Cottonbush · Maireana campanulata · Maireana cannonii · Cottony Bluebush · Maireana cheelii · Fissure Weed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana murrayana 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.

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