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Maireana trichoptera
Maireana trichoptera, commonly known as mallee bluebush, pink-seeded bluebush or downy bluebush, or spike bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to all mainland states and territories of Australia except Queensland. It is an erect perennial shrub with white, woolly branches, fleshy semiterete leaves, white bisexual flowers arranged singly, and a hairy fruiting perianth with a thin, horizontal wing.
Maireana trichoptera is widespread in western New South Wales, western Victoria, South Australia, temperate Western Australia and the southern part of the Northern Territory. In New South Wales it is widespread usually on lighter soils in the west of that state, in Victoria it is found on deep sand or on heavier loamy soils with belah (Casuarina pauper), and in the Northern Territory it occurs on gravelly rises, low hills and breakaways.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana trichoptera 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.
