Desert Spinach: 2 Flowers per Leaf Axis

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Vines

Order:

Betalains (Caryophyllales)

Family:

Ice Plant (Aizoaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Desert Spinach (Tetragonia eremaea)

This Photo:

🔍2 Flowers per Leaf Axis🔎

Thank you Dr Manfred Jusaitis for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
The flowers are tiny at only ~4mm tip to tip. As they are the same colour as the stem & leaf they are very hard to see. There are 2 flowers per leaf axis.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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