Chenopodiastrum cristatum

George Bentham & Ferdinand Mueller, 1870, Chenopodium & Dysphania, Flora Australiensis, London: L. Reeve & Co., pp. 157-165 : -1

11. C. cristatum , F. Muell . Fragm. vii. 11.

Diffuse or procumbent, with ascending flowering branches of 1 ft. or more, the whole plant slightly glandular-pubescent. Leaves on long petioles, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, coarsely toothed, narrowed at the base, ½ to 1 in. long, green and glandular-scabrous on both sides. Flowers in dense globular clusters, all axillary. Perianth-segments linear, erect, not incurved, acute, about 1 line long when in fruit, the keel dilated into a broad fringed crest or wing. Fruit ovoid, erect, enclosed in the perianth. Styles very slender.- Blitum cristatum, F. Muell . in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. 73.

N. S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition.

Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller.

S. Australia. Flinders Range , F. Mueller.