Atriplex pseudocampanulata

Annual herb or short-lived perennial subshrub to c. 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves sessile, rhombic, elliptic or ovate, widest at or below midway, 6–20 mm long, 3–20 mm wide, usually shallowly toothed, mealy-grey on both surfaces with minute vesicular hairs. Male flowers in small clusters at or near branch-tips, female flowers clustered in lower axils. Fruiting bracteoles free in upper half, broadly rhombic, deltoid or semicircular, usually shallowly toothed, sometimes with small spongy tubercles on one face, fused and shortly pedicellate in lower half, covered with vesicular hairs, to 4 mm long overall, usually slightly wider than long. Fruits Sep.–May.