Atriplex vesicaria Heward ex Benth.

Erect or decumbent shrub to 1 m high, predominantly dioecious. Leaves elliptic to oblong or obovate, acute, obtuse, or rounded, usually entire, attenuate at base, sparsely to densely scaly, somewhat green; lamina 5–25 mm long, 3–15 mm wide. Male flowers in disjunct or contiguous glomerules arranged in a terminal spike or panicle 2–4 cm long. Female flowers 2 to many in upper axils. Fruiting bracteoles sessile with stipe 1–3 mm long; valves free or fused to above seed, orbicular to oval-triangular or rhomboid, obtuse, acute, or mucronate, 4–13 mm long and wide, entire or dentate towards apex, cuneate to cordate at base; appendages thin-walled and bladder-like attached to base of valves, or fused to one another below bracteoles, or to the bracteole margin, sometimes absent.

It grows in inland Australia. It will grow in heavy alkaline soils. It can tolerate frost and drought. It will grow in salty soils. It can grow in arid places.

CAUTION: It contains saponins.

Plants can be grown by seed or cuttings.