Maireana decalvans (Gand.) Paul G.wilson

Tufted to bushy shrub to 50 cm high. Branches slender, striate, sparsely woolly or glabrous, often woolly in leaf axils. Leaves alternate, slender and terete to narrowly fusiform, 5–8 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous. Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube shallowly hemispherical, c. 3 mm diam., thin-walled; wing thin, horizontal, simple, c. 8 mm diam., with fine pale brown anastomosing veins when dry, entire except a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth flat with somewhat fleshy lobes.

Usually grows in heavy seasonallywaterlogged soil; sometimes an early invader of cleared land.