Atriplex eardleyae Aellen

Decumbent to erect perennial herb to 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves elliptic to orbicular, c. 10 mm long, entire; base cuneate and passing into a short petiole or subsessile. Male flowers in small glomerules in distal leaf axils usually with a few female flowers. Female flowers in scattered glomerules along branches. Fruiting bracteoles with a compressed narrow campanulate to deltoid tube, c. 1–2 mm long which expands into appressed fan-shaped to reniform reticulate sinuate valves ± equal in length to tube, the adaxial valve slightly shorter than the abaxial; tube with a pair of small leaf-like appendages on adaxial surface near base or these sometimes lacking; stipe slender or stout, shorter than to slightly exceeding length of tube.