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Maireana villosa
Maireana villosa, commonly known as silky bluebush, or common bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to mainland Australia. It is an open, hairy, ascending subshrub or shrub with semi-succulent linear to oblong or narrowly lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, mostly bisexual flowers arranged singly or in pairs, and a fruiting perianth with a more or less horizontal wing with a radial slit.
Maireana villosa is widespread in mainland Australia where it grows in loam, clay or sand, often in stony soils or on red-earth plains and dune swales in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, and western New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana villosa 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.
