Atriplex rhagodioides

Rounded shrub to c. 2.5 m high, mostly dioecious. Leaves cordate to deltoid, 15–40 mm long, 10–30 mm wide, margins entire or shallowly toothed, surfaces uniformly grey-green or bluish. Male flowers in usually distant, globose clusters in terminal spikes or panicles. Female flowers clustered in leafless panicles, in upper axils or sometimes a few subtending male flowers. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, broadly rhombic or ellipsoid, free above the widest part, united below, pale greyish or straw-coloured, thickened and corky all over at maturity, entire, 2–5 mm long and wide, often slightly wider than long, dorsal appendages absent. Fruits Mar., Oct. (2 records).