Cratystylis subspinescens S.Moore

Rounded, divaricately branched, grey shrub to 1 m high; hairs appressed-villous, medifixed; branchlets spinescent. Leaves well-spaced, spreading, narrowly elliptic to narrowly spathulate, 3–12 mm long, appressed-villous with medifixed hairs (not resinous). Female involucre narrowly cylindrical, c. 10 mm long; bracts scarious, pale green, appressed-villous, ciliate, not resinous. Male involucre similar but turbinate, with bracts spreading above. Florets 3–6; corolla c. 10 mm long, white fading to pink. Male florets: anthers partly exserted, calcarate and conspicuously tailed; sterile achene c. 1 mm long. Female florets: style branches spreading; achene narrowly cylindrical, c. 6 mm long, with sessile globular glands; pappus bristles scabrid, ±equal to corolla.

Associated with calcareous or saline soil and frequently found around salt lakes, sometimes forming a dominant cover in saltbush steppe.