Atriplex amnicola Paul G.wilson

Spreading, divaricately branched shrub to 1.5 m high, sometimes layering; predominantly dioecious. Leaves, shortly petiolate, thin; lamina narrowly elliptic, narrowly oblong or narrowly hastate with short divaricate basal lobes, 10–25 mm long, obtuse, entire or remotely dentate, with a thin lepidote sheen on both surfaces or becoming glabrous above. Male flowers in compact glomerules c. 5 mm diam. forming terminal spikes. Female flowers in axillary clusters and forming short dense terminal spikes. Fruiting bracteoles with a short hard turbinate base (stipe); bracteoles fused along lateral margins, ovoid to fan-shaped, 4–6 mm wide, thick and hard all over or with a herbaceous margin; appendages absent. Seed circular; radicle lateral, erect.

Along creeks and outer margins of saltlakes.