Suaeda maritima subsp. maritima

Erect or ascending annual, branched from near base, to c. 1 m high, glabrous, dull grey-green to strongly pink-tinged. Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, acute or obtuse, 6-15 mm long, c. 1 mm wide. Flowers all bisexual or some female, in axillary clusters; perianth lobed from base; anther c. 0.3 mm long. Fruiting perianth not inflated, but sometimes prominently keeled dorsally and/or with a narrow basal lobe, depressed-globular, to c. 2.5 mm diam.; seed horizontal, lenticular, more or less acute around the circumference or even slightly keeled, 1.3-1.7 mm diam., testa dark reddish-brown, shining, more or less concentrically and minutely colliculate, the patterning visible at ×20 or more magnification, falling free from pericarp.  Flowers May, Sep. (2 records).