About Tecticornia arbuscula (R.Br.) K.A.Sheph. & Paul G.Wilson
Tecticornia arbuscula, commonly known as shrubby glasswort or scrubby samphire, is a plant species in the Amaranthaceae family that is native to Australia. It is a spreading shrub that reaches up to 2 metres in height. Its branchlets are succulent and swollen, and bear small leaf lobes. This species grows on shorelines in coastal and estuarine areas, as well as in salt marshes, particularly those that are occasionally inundated by the ocean. It has a patchy distribution across southern coastal Australia, and can be found in southern Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania. The seeds of this species are enclosed in a hard, vaguely pyramid-shaped pericarp. The seeds themselves are 1.5 millimetres long, narrow, golden brown, transparent, and unornamented. Robert Brown originally published this species under the name Salicornia arbuscula. It was later transferred to the genus Sclerostegia by Paul G. Wilson in 1980, before being moved to the genus Tecticornia in 2007.
