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 10. C. pumilio, R, Br. Prod. 407, A branching decumbent filiform annual of about 1 in ,, more or less hoary with crisped or gladular hairs. Leaves on slender petioles, ovate or oblong, entire, 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers minute, axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together on very short pedicels, Periantli-segments 4 or 5, linear, erect, concave, slightly incurved, nearly 1/2 line long when in fruit, hirsute with a few crisped hairs, - Blitum pumilio, Moq , in DC. Prod, xiii, ii, 82; Ambrina pumilio, Moq , Chenop, Enum. 42. S. Australia . Kangaroo island , R. Brown . Possibly a diminutive form of C. carinatum .