Prostrate to procumbent perennial, often slightly glaucous. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 5–15 mm long. Perianth tube fleshy, cylindrical, c. 1 mm long, indistinctly 3-lobed at apex; stamens 3. Fruiting perianth ovoid to urceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm long, thinly succulent, woody within, the tube extending above the lobes as a low, unevenly 2–4-lobed rim c. 0.5 mm high. Fruits most of year.
MuM, GleP, Brid, VVP, RobP, GipP, OtP, WaP, WPro. Also WA, SA, Tas. Scattered along coastal dunes, cliffs and tidal saltmarsh from the South Australian border at Nelson to Wilsons Promontory. Rare around salt-pans or rarely on gypseous rises in mallee communities in north-western Victoria (e.g. Raak Plains, Pink Lakes, Tutye North).
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
