Chenopodium & Dysphania Author George Bentham Author Ferdinand Mueller text 1870 L. Reeve & Co. London Flora Australiensis 157 165 http://un.availab.le book chapter FloAustBeMu1870-157 11. C. cristatum, F. Muell . Fragm. vii. 11. Diffuse or procumbent, with ascending flowering branches of 1 ft . or more, the whole plant slightly glandular-pubescent. Leaves on long petioles, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, coarsely toothed, narrowed at the base, 1/2 to 1 in . long, green and glandular-scabrous on both sides. Flowers in dense globular clusters, all axillary. Perianth-segments linear, erect, not incurved, acute, about 1 line long when in fruit, the keel dilated into a broad fringed crest or wing. Fruit ovoid, erect, enclosed in the perianth. Styles very slender.- Blitum cristatum, F. Muell . in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. 73. N. S. Wales . Darling river , Victorian Expedition . Victoria . Murray river , F. Mueller . S. Australia . Flinders Range , F. Mueller .