Frankenia pulverulenta

Prostrate annual herb, stems to 40 cm long, branches not differentiated into long- and short-shoots; branches sparsely to densely covered in spreading to incurved hairs; internodes 3–14 mm long. Leaves 2–6 mm long; petiole 1–2 mm long, narrowed markedly and more or less cylindric distally where 0.2–0.4 mm wide, ciliate; leaf-blade obovate or oblong-elliptic; flattened with margins slightly revolute; midrib inconspicuous to sometimes slightly raised on lower surface; surfaces greyish yellow-green, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with spreading to appressed, incurved hairs. Flowers solitary or in terminal or axillary dichasia. Calyx 5-lobed, 2–4 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, glabrous to sparsely hairy, lobes spreading; petals (4–)5, 2–5 mm long; stamens 6; style-branches 3; ovules c. 25–60. Flowers most of year.