Chenopodium trigonon Schult.

Prostrate or semi-prostrate perennial herb, often mat-forming. Stems trailing or decumbent, often purple, farinose especially when young. Lvs mainly alternate, ± fleshy. Petiole to 1.5–(2) cm long, slender. Lamina 4–20–(33) × 2–10–(23) mm (lvs smallest at base or amongst glomerules), ovate-hastate, triangular-hastate, ovate or elliptic, entire except for a basal lobe on each side, ± grey or glaucous; margins sometimes purplish; base truncate to broad-cuneate; apex rounded to acute. Infl. farinose; fls terminal and forming ± spike-like clusters, or axillary and in fascicles of few-flowered glomerules. Perianth segments (0.3)–0.5–0.6 mm long at anthesis, linear, spathulate, ovate-oblong, with keel green and margin membranous, becoming c. 1 mm long at fruiting, loosely investing and not meeting laterally or in centre of fr. Stamens usually 2. Pericarp thin, not succulent or red, inconspicuous, easily detached. Seed horizontal, c. 0.8–1–(1.5) mm diam., circular and flattened; testa black, shining, finely granular.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Einadia trigonos (Schult.) Paul G.Wilson]

Flowering: Jan.–Dec.