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Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atriplex bunburyana, commonly known as silver saltbush, is a species of saltbush endemic to Western Australia.
Atriplex bunburyana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Amaranthaceae |
Genus: | Atriplex |
Species: | A. bunburyana |
Binomial name | |
Atriplex bunburyana | |
It grows as an erect shrub up to a metre high, with slender branches that are often straight and rigid. Leaves are oval in shape, five to 20 millimetres long, with a linear margin and a blueish colour caused by a thin scaly coating.[1]
It was first published by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1882 under the name Atriplex bunburyanum,[2] but this name was orthographically invalid and has been corrected to Atriplex bunburyana.[3] The name refers to the collector of the type specimen, a Miss Bunbury, who collected specimens of this species from the Gascoyne River in 1882.
The species' only synonym is A. paludosa subsp. graciliflora, published by Paul Aellen in 1938.[4]
Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs through most of the western half of the state, both near the coast and inland.[5]
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