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DescriptionMaireana microphylla fruit NWS 2.jpg
English: Native warm-season perennial shrub to about 1 m tall and wide. Stems are sparsely hairy when young. Leaves are often sparse, alternating up the stems, flattened cylindrical, 0.2–1 cm long, 0.5 mm wide, glaucous to sparsely hairy. Flowers are small, tubular, with 5 'petals', hairless or the margins of the 'petals' fringed. Flowers single, but crowded into leafy spikes at the ends of the branchlets. Seed cases thick discs, 1.5–7 mm in diameter, flat or slightly convex at the tips, thin-walled, slightly open at the tips, hairless to slightly hairy, dark brown when dry. Horizontal wing may or may not be developed; when present, the wing entire or lobed, margin finely scalloped, with a radial slit.
Colonizing species of disturbed sites and bare ground.
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