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Maireana ovata is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is a small, densely branched shrub with densely woolly branches, narrowly egg-shaped to broadly triangular leaves, bisexual flowers and a fruiting perianth with a translucent wing.
Maireana ovata is found in central Australia where it grows on sandy rises and the eroded slopes of stony hills in the south of the Northern Territory, central South Australia and the Western Plains of New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana ovata 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.
