Maireana eriosphaera

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Maireana eriosphaera is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, loosely branched, perennial herb with a woody base, linear to narrowly oblong leaves, bisexual flowers arranged singly in dense spikes on the ends of branches, and a hemispherical, top-shaped fruiting perianth densely covered with silky wool and with a narrow, fan-shaped wing.

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