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Ptilotus halophilus is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a prostrate or low-lying perennial herb, with spoon-shaped, egg-shaped or elliptic leaves, spherical to oval spikes with a silvery sheen.
This species of Ptilotus grows in saline sand on sand dunes near salt lakes in open mallee woodlands and is only known from Lake Altham and Lake Hurlstone in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee bioregions of Western Australia.
Ptilotus actinocladus · Ptilotus aervoides · Ptilotus albidus · Ptilotus alexandri · Ptilotus andersonii · Ptilotus angustifolius · Leafless Mulla Mulla · Ptilotus appendiculatus · Ptilotus aristatus · Ptilotus arthrolasius · Ptilotus astrolasius · Ptilotus auriculifolius
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus halophilus 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.
