Intricate Saltbush: Female Flowers

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Betalains (Caryophyllales)

Family:

Goosefoot (Chenopodiaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Intricate Saltbush (Rhagodia ulicina)

This Photo:

🔍Female Flowers🔎

Other names:

Spiny Goosefoot or Spiny Saltbush

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere
Small leaves, ~2-5mm. A medium sized, grey-green shrub with many branching stems
Young stems are red.
In winter/spring the leaves hide the branches quite well but as the season dries some of the leaves fall off leaving a spiny looking habit.
The overal shape of the bush seems quite variable, possibly due to grazing from herbivours.
This is a dioecious species, ie a specimen is either male or female. Only the female plants produce fruit.
Like other Rhagodia's, the fruit is a red berry.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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