Atriplex papillata

Procumbent to small shrubby perennial, to c. 20 cm high, monoecious. Leaves sessile, oblong to narrowly ovate, 6–16 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, commonly rather thick and inclined to branch-lets, margins entire or weakly toothed, often incurved, both leaves and branchlets typically covered in dense, scaly grey indumentum. Male flowers in small terminal or upper-axillary clusters, sometimes including a few female flowers at the base, female flowers otherwise in small clusters in lower axils. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, grey, fused to near apex, ovoid, 2–4 mm long, covered near the base or almost throughout with numerous spreading, finger-like appendages to c. 1 mm long, absent from the flat, shallowly 3-lobed apex. Fruits Sep.-Dec.