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SHRUBBY GLASSWORT FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Shrubby Glasswort
Description
Shrubby Glasswort is an upright or spreading coastal shrub growing to about two metres in height. The branches are brown with succulent branchlets made up of green segments that grow up to about 1 cm in length. The flowers are very small and white with bracts and produced on the end segments of the stems. The seeds are elliptical. The plant has also been known as Salicornia arbuscula, Arthrocnemum arbuscula, Sclerostegia arbuscula.
Habitat
found in coastal wetlands, estuaries, coastal headlands
Distribution
Tecticornia arbuscula is found in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and southern Western Australia.
Growth Characteristics
Height: 0.3m - 2m
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Caryophyllales | | Family: | Amaranthaceae | | Genus: | Tecticornia | | Species: | arbuscula | | Common Name: | Shrubby Glasswort |
Relatives in same Genus
Tecticornia indica
Tecticornia pergranulata
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