Chenopodium desertorum subsp. rectum

Erect, sometimes spinescent shrub to c. 40 cm high. Stems and leaves rather sparsely covered with globose or saucer-shaped vesicular hairs; leaves petiolate, broadly ovate to obovate, 3–12 mm long. Inflorescence usually exceeding upper leaves, its axis often persisting after fruit-fall; tepals mealy, at least near margins; pericarp membranous to slightly succulent. Seed c. 1 mm diam. Flowers Sep.–Jan.