Atriplex billardierei

Prostrate, rather fleshy short-lived perennial, monoecious. Leaves subsessile, broadly elliptic to rhombic, 5–10 (–20) mm long, (2–) 5(–7) mm wide, new growth covered in glistening bladder-hairs, becoming sparser with age, sand grains often adhering to surfaces. Male flowers in axils of upper leaves, or terminal. Female flowers few in upper axils. Fruiting bracteoles subsessile, united into a pouch-shaped structure, fleshy and covered in bladder-hairs when young, papery at maturity, 3–5 mm long, sometimes 2–3-toothed at apex. Seed aligned at right-angles relative to bracteoles. Fruits Jan.–Feb.