Maireana amoena (Diels) Paul G.wilson

Small brittle shrub to 40 cm high. Branchlets woolly when young. Leaves fleshy, globular to ovoid or terete, 5–15 mm long, glabrous to sericeous. Flowers paired, bisexual. Fruiting perianth glabrescent, woolly or pilose; base angular, truncate; tube short, hemispherical, woody, rarely spongy; wings 5, horizontal, oblong to fan-shaped, usually 1.5–3 mm long, rarely smaller, papery to coriaceous or spongy, rarely almost absent; upper perianth coriaceous to spongy, usually with 5 radial ridges.

Usually found on sandy rises aroundsalt lakes.