Maireana integra

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Maireana integra
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Maireana
Species:
M. integra
Binomial name
Maireana integra
Synonyms [1]

Kochia integraPaul G.Wilson

In the Boolcoomatta Reserve Maireana integra habit.jpg
In the Boolcoomatta Reserve

Maireana integra, commonly known as entire-wing bluebush, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Chenopodiaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a shrub with woolly branches, more or less terete leaves and bisexual flowers arranged singly, the glabrous fruiting perianth tube-shaped with a simple, glabrous wing.

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Description

Maireana integra is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has branches covered with woolly hairs. Its leaves are arranged alternately, more or less terete, linear to oblong, 5–14 mm (0.20–0.55 in) long, about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide and covered with woolly hairs. The flowers are bisexual and arranged singly. The fruiting perianth is pale to dark brown when dry, with a hemispherical tube 1 mm (0.039 in) high and 2.5 mm (0.098 in) wide at the top, and glabrous. The wing is simple, glabrous, horizontal and about 10 mm (0.39 in) in diameter. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1965 by Paul G.Wilson who gave it the name Kochia integra in the supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia from specimens collected near the Rawlinson Range in 1962. [7] In 1975, Paul G. Wilson transferred the species to Maireana as M. integra in the journal Nuytsia . [3] [8] The specific epithet (integra) means 'whole', referring to the ring of the fruit. [9]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Maireana usually grows in loam or clay in saline flats and claypans and is found from the Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor and Pilbara bioregions of Western Australia, [10] and west through South Australia, [2] the southern Northern Territory [6] and Queensland [4] to the western plains of New South Wales. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Maireana integra". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Maireana integra". Seeds of South Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  3. 1 2 Wilson, Paul G. (1975). "A Taxonomic Revision of the genus Maireana (Chenopodiaceae)". Nuytsia. 2 (1): 50–51. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 Wilson, Paul G. "Maireana integra". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  5. 1 2 Jacobs, Surrey W.L. "Maireana integra". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Maireana integra". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  7. ↑ "Kochia integra". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  8. ↑ "Maireana integra". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  9. ↑ George, Alex; Sharr, Francis (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 230. ISBN   9780958034180.
  10. ↑ "Maireana integra". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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