Common Name: Black Bluebush
Botanical Name: Maireana pyramidata
Family: CHENOPODIACEAE
Description:
Blue-grey, dense to spreading, much-branched shrub, to 1.5 m high, with rigid, woolly branchlets. Small, fleshy, rounded, clustered, blue to grey-green, 2-6 mm long. Solitary in leaf axil, tiny, greenish, dioecious flowers. Throughout the year. Fruiting body with horizontal, papery wings (to 1.5 cm diameter) and raised pyramidial centre to 4 mm high, pale green to brown, drying to black in colour. Variable, commonly summer.
Blue-grey, dense to spreading, much-branched shrub, to 1.5 m high, with rigid, woolly branchlets. Small, fleshy, rounded, clustered, blue to grey-green, 2-6 mm long. Solitary in leaf axil, tiny, greenish, dioecious flowers. Throughout the year. Fruiting body with horizontal, papery wings (to 1.5 cm diameter) and raised pyramidial centre to 4 mm high, pale green to brown, drying to black in colour. Variable, commonly summer.
Natural Distribution:
Widely distributed throughout the northern arid regions of SA including the northern Eyre Peninsula, Northern Lofty and Murray region. Extends into WA, NSW and Vic.
Widely distributed throughout the northern arid regions of SA including the northern Eyre Peninsula, Northern Lofty and Murray region. Extends into WA, NSW and Vic.
Notes:
This species forms large areas of low shrublands with Maireana sedifolia in northern arid regions.
This species forms large areas of low shrublands with Maireana sedifolia in northern arid regions.
