Chenopodium nitrariaceum (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.

Divaricately branched spinescent shrub c. 2 m high. Leaves alternate, often clustered, spathulate with rounded apex, passing at base into a short petiole, in all 10–30 mm long, thick, sparsely mealy with minute collapsed vesicular hairs. Inflorescence a terminal spiny panicle to 15 cm long or reduced to a short spike; flowers polygamous, clustered. perianth depressed-globular to turbinate, 1.5–2 mm diam., 5-lobed, pubescent with small branched tubular hairs. Stamens 5; disc absent. Ovary pubescent above; stigmas 2, slender. Fruit enveloped by perianth, dry. Pericarp membranous, white, free, pubescent above. Seed horizontal to vertical, depressed-globular to subreniform, c. 1 mm diam.; testa punctate, reddish brown to black, glossy; embryo horseshoe-shaped to annular.

It grows in subtropical regions. It grows in dry areas and often on heavy clays.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings.