Chenopodiastrum atriplicinum, F. Muell

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

12. C. atriplicinum, F. Muell . Fragm. vii. 11.

Apparently perennial, branching at the base only, with numerous ascending "^or erect stems under 1 ft. and often under 6 in ,, flowering from near the base, of a pale green and slightly glandular-pubescent, Lower leaves on long slender petioles, from lanceolate to broadly hastate, otherwise entire, rather thick, ¾ to 1 in, long, the upper ones smaller lanceolate and entire, but all petiolate. Flowers in dense sessile axillary clusters shorter than the petioles. Perianth-segments 4 or 5, erect, lanceolate, rather above 1 line long, the points somewhat spreading, the keel much thickened and irregularly angular at the base. Stamen 1. Seed erect, rugose, enclosed in the perianth.-

Blitum atriplicinum, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 133, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 204.

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

Victoria. Wimmera, Dallachy.

S. Australia. Flinders Range, F. Mueller.