Noongar Boodjar Plants and Animals
Atriplex semibaccata
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Noongar Boodjar Plants and Animals)
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Language
Language Name
Noongar-Wudjari (W8): Maariny Ngaritj
Noongar-Nyoongar/Baaduk (W41):
Common name: Berry Saltbush
Scientific name: Atriplex semibaccata
Group name for Plants
Wudjari: Dek
Nyoongar/Baaduk: Dek
Group name for Flowers
Wudjari: Djet
Nyoongar/Baaduk: Djet
Contributed by Nat Raisbeck-Brown
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Language Meaning
Wudjari: Maariny = food, ngaritj = salty
Contributed by Denise Smith-Ali
Edited by
Source: Wudjari: Lynette Knapp, Gail Yorkshire
How does it Look - Feel - Smell - Taste?
Looks like:
Wudjari: Sprawling ground cover (bush) with tiny red berries when ripe.
Feels like:
Smells like:
Tastes like:
Wudjari: Salty Berries.
Contributed by Nat Raisbeck-Brown
Edited by
Source: Wudjari: Lynette Knapp, Gail Yorkshire
Food, Medicine And Other Uses
Food:
Wudjari: When ripe, the berries can be picked and eaten.
Medicine:
Other Uses:
Contributed by Nat Raisbeck-Brown
Edited by
Source: Wudjari: Lynette Knapp, Gail Yorkshire
Where Is It Found?
Wudjari: Inland from the coast in the salty areas.
Contributed by Nat Raisbeck-Brown
Edited by
Source: Wudjari: Lynette Knapp, Gail Yorkshire
Connection To Season
Birak
Wudjari: Berries ready in Summer.
Boonaroo
Djeran
Mooaroo
Djilba
Kambarang
Contributed by Nat Raisbeck-Brown
Edited by
Source: Wudjari: Lynette Knapp, Gail Yorkshire
Connection To People
Wudjari: Noongar children would sit around the bush for hours and pick at the berries (during mission times).
Contributed by Nat Raisbeck-Brown
Edited by
Source: Wudjari: Lynette Knapp, Gail Yorkshire
Conservation & sensitivity lists
- Inverell Species List
- Testing – Mr. Stewart’s listing of familiar native vascular plant taxa
- IBRA Avon Wheatbelt - Flora
- Native plant species - Darling downs
- Native plant species - Darling downs
- Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN)
- Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne holdings (2010)
- List 251-500
- South Australian Flora
- Westernport Biosphere species
- NSW VIS Flora Survey species list
- Sandstone-belt indigenous plant species not in nor affiliated with the Censuses in Sutton (1911 and 1912)
- Census of the Queensland Flora 2016
- Census of the Queensland Flora 2016
- IBRA Darling Riverine Plains - Flora
- South Australian Flora
- SA vascular plants
- IBRA Brigalow Belt South - Flora
- IBRA Broken Hill Complex - Flora
- IBRA Channel Country - Flora
- IBRA Cobar Peneplain - Flora
- IBRA Coolgardie - Flora
- IBRA Desert Uplands - Flora
- IBRA Esperance Plains - Flora
- IBRA Eyre Yorke Block - Flora
- IBRA Flinders Lofty Block - Flora
- IBRA Gawler - Flora
- IBRA Geraldton Sandplains - Flora
- IBRA Jarrah Forest - Flora
- IBRA Kanmantoo - Flora
- IBRA MacDonnell Ranges - Flora
- IBRA Mallee - Flora
- IBRA Mitchell Grass Downs - Flora
- IBRA Mulga Lands - Flora
- IBRA Murchison - Flora
- IBRA Murray Darling Depression - Flora
- IBRA Nandewar - Flora
- IBRA Naracoorte Coastal Plain - Flora
- IBRA New England Tablelands - Flora
- IBRA NSW North Coast - Flora
- IBRA NSW South Western Slopes - Flora
- IBRA Pacific Subtropical Islands - Flora
- IBRA Riverina - Flora
- IBRA South East Coastal Plain - Flora
- IBRA South East Corner - Flora
- IBRA South Eastern Highlands - Flora
- IBRA South Eastern Queensland - Flora
- IBRA Southern Volcanic Plain - Flora
- IBRA Stony Plains - Flora
- IBRA Swan Coastal Plain - Flora
- IBRA Sydney Basin - Flora
- IBRA South East - Flora
- IBRA Victorian Midlands - Flora
- IBRA Yalgoo - Flora
- fire names 2v
- IBRA Brigalow Belt North - Flora
- Native plant traits - Darling Downs - profile test
- Native plant traits - Darling Downs - profile test
- Test - PSLT Native vegetation database
- Test - PSLT Native vegetation database
- SA Flora - updated
- VBA Flora List 2018
- eFlora_masterlist_181203
- appendage
- APC list test
- SA Flora for BDBSA - refreshed Nov 2018
- NSW PlantNet Etaxon txt converted to Excel, CC region names only - updated 2022 April 1
- Fungimap- All Plants
- Land plants, A-G
- City of Adelaide Parklands 2019 All Native Plant Species for Which Specimens Exist
- Land Plants TRC MLES
- Meeting list
- Meeting list- plants
- Flora
- Brisbane City Council species list
- MERIT species list validation
- MERIT species list validation
- MERIT species list validation
- Restoration species for the NSW Northern Rivers
- Northern Rivers Restoration Species
- QLD species listings (full)
- Quadrat Species list
- Simple voucher species list
- NSW flora species with BioNet codes
- 1947 previous species list
- IBRA Victorian Midlands Flora for BioCollect project
- Simple voucher list SA taxa
- Preferred Vernacular Names - excluding birds
- Noongar-Nyoongar Names for Animals and Plants
- partAVernacularNames
- ALA Preferred Vernacular Name A-C
- CW Species
- TestNSWListMatchToTaxonomy
- My species list
- A_grassy_species-list
- Flora within 5km
- Species within 5km v3
- NSW_LGA_KIAMA_IAS
- TempListOfNamesFromGbif
- Info Req
- Flora and Fauna
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- EPBC_NCAct_Species.csv
- SA Vascular Plants - Feb 2025
- SA Vascular Plants - Feb 2025
- Saltbush berries
- Tichawanta overstorey & midstorey
- 200
- My species list
- The 200
- Non-Native Species List for Australia and Territories Version 19 March 2025
Taxonomy from
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Caryophyllanae
- Order: Caryophyllales
- Family: Chenopodiaceae
- Genus: Atriplex
- Species: Atriplex semibaccata
Infraspecific taxa
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Last updated: Unknown; Feb 29, 2024 12:43
Status: Partial
Author - Noongar Boodjar Language Centre
Knapp, L., Yorkshire, G., Ali-Smith, D., Councillor, L., Nannup, A., Jansen, A., Moulton, T., Blond, B., Turpin, G., Hopper, S., Lullfitz, A and Raisbeck-Brown, N. (2024).Maariny Ngaritj. Noongar Boodjar Language Centre, Perth, Western Australia. [Date accessed: 04 April 2025] https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/noongar