Maireana thesioides (C.A.Gardner) Paul G.wilson

Weak straggly shrub c. 1 m high, glabrous except axillary tufts of wool. Branches slender, striate, often drooping. Leaves alternate, narrowly fusiform, fleshy, 5–15 mm long, narrowed at base with a distinct petiole. Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous except woolly margin to lobes. Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube turbinate, c. 3 mm high, crustaceous; wing thin, simple, horizontal, 10–15 mm diam., with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth convex.