Chenopodium curvispicatum Paul G.wilson

Weak intricately branched shrub to 1 m high. Branches frequently curved downwards. Leaves opposite or subopposite, with slender petiole, triangular to hastate with rounded angles, densely mealy with rounded white vesicular hairs; lamina 1–1.5 cm long and wide. Inflorescence a drooping pyramidal panicle 2–5 cm long. Flowers polygamo-monoecious, sessile or shortly pedicellate, globular, c. 2 mm diam. Perianth 5-lobed, densely covered with white stipitate vesicular hairs. Stamens 5, united into a sparsely hairy disc. Stigmas 2, slender, papillose. Fruiting perianth at first closed but eventually opened out and c. 5 mm diam. hard, often red above. Pericarp succulent, red (orange on drying). Seed lenticular with rounded margin, c. 1.5 mm diam.; testa prominently reticulate with a honeycomb matrix, black.

Usually growing in light often calcareous soil.