Maireana oppositifolia (F.Muell.) Paul G.wilson

Compact shrub to 1 m high, usually dioecious. Branches finely woolly when young. Leaves opposite (alternate and in compact glomerules in inland variant), sessile, spurred, narrowly ovate, to 4 mm long (deltoid and c. 1 mm long when clustered), obtusely trigonous in T.S., shortly sericeous to almost glabrous. Flowers solitary. Fruiting perianth glabrous except lobes; tube broadly obconical to convex, 1.5–2 mm diam., thin-walled; wings 5, thin, fan-shaped, prominently veined, spreading unevenly (the smaller two sub-erect), c. 7 mm diam.

Along the southcoast of W.A. and S.A. on mud flats; in westernVic. and southern W.A. around inland salt lakes.