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Slender-Fruited Saltbush

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Scientific Name:Atriplex leptocarpa
Photo: Slender-Fruited Saltbush
Photograph courtesy of Viridans Biological Databases (external link)

Other Common Name:
Slender-fruit Saltbush, Long-fruited Saltbush, Long-fruit Saltbush, Creeping Saltbush.

Status:
Native to Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland

Plant Description:
Perennial shrub with rigid branching stems that spread along the ground.

Leaves a scaly grey, oblong or linear lanceolate, 2-3 cm long, the margins smooth or with a few small teeth. Flowers in clusters in the leaf axils.

Fruiting body almost stalkless, 3 – 6 mm long, the lower three quarters tubular and hardened, the upper portion somewhat compressed, with 3 minute triangular lobes at the top. Flowering most of the year, mainly in spring and summer.
Region
Mallee, Loddon MurrayS2, S3, S4W0, W1

Habitat:
Not specific, in numerous plant communities and on several soil types. common on duplex soils and scalds.
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