Suaeda australis

Erect or rounded perennial, to c. 0.7 m high, glabrous, bright green, yellowish or red-tinted. Leaves linear, trigonous in section or subterete, or narrowly obovoid, acute or obtuse, mostly 7–20(–50) mm long, 1–3.5 mm wide. Flowers bisexual (or rarely female), in axillary clusters; perianth lobed from below midway; anthers c. 0.7 mm long. Fruiting perianth slightly succulent but not inflated, depressed-globular, to c. 2 mm diam.; seed horizontal, lenticular, rounded dorsally, (1–)1.5–1.8 mm diam., testa black or dark reddish-brown, shining, essentially smooth at x20 magnification, falling free from pericarp. Flowers mostly Oct.–Mar.