Mueller, F.J.H. von (30 September 1857), Account of some new Australian plants. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 2: 74 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In the desert on the Murray and Darling."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1877), List of the plants obtained during Mr. C. Giles's travels in Australia in 1875 and 1876. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 15: 275 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 30, 141 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 5 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 83 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 408 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 187, Fig. 69 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender-fruited Saltbush [n/a]

Aellen, P. (1938), Revision der australischen und neuseelandischen Chenopodiaceen I: Theleophyton, Atriplex, Morrisiella, Blackiella, Senniella, Pachypharynx. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 68(5): 360-362 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 299, Fig. 382 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender-fruited Saltbush [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 163 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender-fruit Saltbush [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 239-240, 242, Fig. 44.11 [secondary reference]

common name: Long-fruited Saltbush [n/a] common name: Creeping Saltbush [n/a] common name: Slender-fruited Saltbush [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 100 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Chenopodiaceae (Chenopodium, Dysphania, Rhagodia, Sclerobitum, Monolepis, Atriplex, enchylaena, Neobassia, Stelligera, Threlkeldia, Babbagia, Halosarcia, Tecticornia, Sclerostegia, Pachycornia, Salsola) ). Flora of Central Australia: 56, Fig. 82.14 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa var. minor (R.H.Anderson) J.M.Black legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 117 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Fruit Saltbush [n/a]

Wilson, Paul G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 107-108, Fig. 20, Map 130 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa f. gracilis Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa var. inermis Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa var. armata Aellen nom. inval. common name: Slender-fruit Saltbush [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 68 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 138 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender-fruit saltbush [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 214 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender-fruit Saltbush [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 138, Fig. 27o [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 214 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender-fruit Saltbush [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa F.Muell. var. leptocarpa legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa F.Muell. f. leptocarpa legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpum F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa f. gracilis Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa var. inermis Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atriplex leptocarpa var. armata Aellen nom. inval.

• APC Comment: Intergrades with A. intermedia and A. sturtii have been suggested. A. sturtii is included as a synonym of A. leptocarpa in SA.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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