Maireana lobiflora

Prostrate or decumbent perennial; taproot long and somewhat fleshy; branches woolly, to c. 15 cm long. Leaves alternate, linear to oblanceolate, 5–10 mm long, silky-hairy. Flowers bisexual, the lobes immersed in dense woolly hairs. Fruiting perianth saucer-shaped, 5–9 mm diam., leathery, truncate or very broadly tapered to base; entire, or divided by the radicular slit, or 5-lobed, with 5–10 erect, club-shaped appendages 2–4 mm long attached around the orifice. Fruits Sep.–Apr.