Maireana convexa Paul G.wilson

Open, divaricately branched shrub 1–2 m high. Branchlets closely woolly. Leaves alternate, semiterete, 10–20 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, fleshy, somewhat silky. Flowers solitary, bisexual. Fruiting perianth; tube broadly turbinate, c. 3 mm high and 5 mm wide at apex, smooth, the base rounded, wall thick and hard; wing horizontal, papery, c. 15 mm diam., faintly veined, with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth convex hard, closely woolly. Style massive, hard and conical, included within perianth.

Usually grows in non-saline soils inmulga (Acacia aneura) communities.