Sarcocornia quinqueflora
| Beaded samphire | |
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| Sarcocornia quinqueflora at Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary | |
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| at Sydney Olympic Park | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Salicornioideae |
| Genus: | Sarcocornia |
| Species: | S. quinqueflora |
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Sarcocornia quinqueflora (Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb.) A.J.Scott |
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Sarcocornia quinqueflora, commonly known as beaded samphire, bead weed, beaded glasswort or glasswort, is a species of succulent halophytic coastal shrub. It occurs in wetter coastal areas of Australia and New Zealand.
It grows as an erect perennial up to 50 centimetres high.
It was first published as Salicornia quinqueflora in 1866, but transferred into Sarcocornia when that genus was erected in 1977.
It occurs in south west and south east Australia, and also in parts of the Nullarbor Plain, and part of the east coast of Cape York Peninsula.
In New Zealand it's found mostly on the shoreline in regions throughout the North Island. In the South Island S. quinqueflora is widespread on the east coast, but isn't found on the west coast.
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