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Maireana triptera
Maireana triptera, commonly known as three-wing bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to mainland Australia. It is a glaucous, compact perennial shrub with mostly glabrous branchlets, fleshy semiterete leaves, mostly bisexual flowers arranged singly, and a glabrous fruiting perianth with five vertical wings fused to a horizontal wing.
Maireana triptera is widespread in mainland Australia where it usually grows in sandy soils, often in mallee. It occurs in north-western Queensland, central and western New South Wales, north-western Victoria, South Australia, central Western Australia and south from Marble Bar in the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana triptera 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.
