Tecticornia syncarpa

Rounded shrub to c. 1 m high and wide. Articles of ultimate branches broadly obovoid, 3–8 mm long, usually dull, often olive-green; lobes obtuse or shortly acute, shortly keeled near apex, margins entire or denticulate. Vegetative growth continuing beyond spikes, spikes to c. 2 cm long (commonly c. 1 cm); opposite bracts united, margins entire or denticulate; flowers of each triad fused to each other but ± free from bracts; perianth strongly dorsiventrally flattened at apex. Fruiting spikes often long persistent; fruiting perianth crustaceous, pericarp thinly crustaceous near apex upper part, membranous near base; seed ovoid, slightly flattened, c. 1.2 mm long, falling enclosed in perianth, testa thin, pale brown, minutely tuberculate in several rows dorsally. Flowers May–Sep.