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  • COMMON NAME: Grey saltbush, Coast saltbush, Barilla or truganini
  • ARABIC: شجيرة الملح الرمادي
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Atriplex cinerea Poir.
  • SYNONYMS: Atriplex cinerea subsp. eucinerea Aellen, Atriplex cinerea var. typica Aellen, Neopreissia cinerea (Poir.) Ulbr.,
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/2452 https://www.gbif.org/species/6035692 https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Atriplex~cinerea https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:163716-1#synonyms V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Ornamental plant. salt tolerant.
Erect or spreading, perennial dioecious or monoecious shrub to 1.8 m high. Leaves ovate to narrowly elliptic to oblong, 15–80 mm long, 8–25 mm wide, thin, apex obtuse, margins entire (rarely coarsely toothed), both surfaces uniformly silvery to grey-green. Male flowers in dense globular clusters 5–7 mm diameter, commonly continuous along a simple or branches spike. Female flowers clustered in axils of upper foliage leaves. Bracteoles fused below the middle, acute or obtuse, 8–15 mm long, sometimes swollen at the base, becoming woody with age, sessile or minutely pedicillate, greyish mealy, ovoid to rhombic, broadly tapered at base, entire or obscurely 1–2 toothed above midway, dorsal appendages absent. Seeds: circular, radical lateral, erect More sheltered parts of the coast, coastal sands and dunes, along shores of sheltered bays, lagoons and inlets
cultivated in plant nurseries in Dubai and can be found in culture in Fujairah.
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