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Rohrlach's Bluebush

Maireana rohrlachii

Rohrlach's Bluebush
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Maireana rohrlachii, commonly known as Rohrlach's bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an intricately branched shrub with its branchlets covered with woolly hairs, mostly unisexual flowers and a glabrous fruiting perianth with a broadly top-shaped to hemispherical tube and a thinly papery wing.

Where it grows

Rohrlach's bluebush is mainly found in the Gawler bioregion of South Australia, the north-west of Victoria where it is not common, and the south-west plains of New South Wales.

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 rohrlachii 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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