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Maireana turbinata
Maireana turbinata, commonly known as satiny bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to mainland Australia. It is an openly branched, perennial shrub with woolly branchlets, succulent, semiterete leaves, mostly bisexual flowers arranged singly, and a glabrous fruiting perianth with a top-shaped tube with a more or less horizontal wing.
Maireana turbinata is widespread in mainland Australia where it usually grows in heavier, often reddish soils. It occurs in central Queensland, western New South Wales, north-western Victoria, South Australia, south-eastern Western Australia and the south of the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana turbinata 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.
