Kingdom Plantae Family Amaranthaceae Genus Tecticornia Rank Species | Order Caryophyllales Subfamily Salicornioideae Scientific name Tecticornia arbuscula | |
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Similar Sarcocornia quinqueflora, Tecticornia, Tecticornia halocnemoides, Tecticornia pergranulata, Suaeda australis | ||
Tecticornia arbuscula, the shrubby glasswort, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Australia. It is a shrub that grows to 2 metres in height, with a spreading habit. It has succulent swollen branchlets with small leaf lobes.
The species occurs on shorelines in coastal or estuarine areas or in salt marshes, especially marshes subject to occasional inundation by the ocean. It has a patchy distribution across south coastal Australia, occurring in southern Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Originally published by Robert Brown under the name Salicornia arbuscula, it was transferred into Sclerostegia by Paul G. Wilson in 1980, before being merged into Tecticornia in 2007.
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