''Gunniopsis rodwayi'' is a

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plant in the iceplant family,

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. It is endemic to

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. The annual herb can have an erect or prostrate habit typically growing to a height of . It blooms between August and December producing white flowers. It is found around salt lakes and other saline areas and was a scattered distribution throughout the

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, Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of

where it grows in sandy, loamy or clay soils. The species was first formally as ''Aizoon rodwayi'' by the

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Alfred James Ewart in 1908 in his work ''Contributions to the Flora of Australia'' as recorded in ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria''. Gardner reclassified it into the ''Gunniopsis'' genera in 1930 in the work ''Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15611840 rodwayi Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1930 Taxa named by Alfred James Ewart