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Maireana suaedifolia
Maireana suaedifolia, commonly known as lax bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Western Australia and South Australia. It is a weak, spreading, dark bluish green shrub with slender, glaucous branches, fleshy leaves narrowed at the base, bisexual flowers arranged singly and a glabrous perianth with a thin, papery wing with a single radial slit.
Maireana suaedifolia grows on sand dunes around salt lakes and on alluvial plains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Gascoyne, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Pilbara and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia and the Eyre Yorke Block, Gawler, Great Victoria Desert and Murray Darling Depression of South Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana suaedifolia 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.
