Atriplex L.
Bracts enclosing female flowers greatly enlarged at fruiting (Fig. 34) Atriplex
Mature bracteoles as long as broad, rhomboidal in outline, closely appressed to each other.
Lower leaves linear, lanceolate, elliptic or oblong, tapering to base
Mature bracteoles 3–6 mm long, ± diamond-shaped, sometimes slightly or quite succulent
Leaves 1–2 cm long, oblong or lanceolate, toothed lobed or entire, green or mealy or green above and mealy below. Mature bracteoles diamond-shaped, 4–6 mm long, sometimes red and fleshy. Prostrate perennial with stems up to 50 cm long. Drier parts of WS, often common near stockyards. Fl. most of the year. Creeping Saltbush. Atriplex semibaccata
Leaves 3–10 cm long, linear to lanceolate, green or mealy, entire or toothed; the lower ones hastate, petiolate. Flowers in terminal panicles. Mature bracteoles diamond-shaped to ovate, 5 mm long, fused below the middle. Annual up to 1 m high, often straggling and decumbent. Salty areas near the sea. Fl. summer Atriplex australasica