Malacocera gracilis Chinnock

Erect annual or perennial herb to 25 cm high; rootstock woody. Branches slender, densely white-woolly. Leaves linear, acuminate, white-villous, 2.5–5 mm long, appressed or eventually spreading. Flowers solitary, densely woolly. Fruiting perianth depressed, appressed to branch; processes 3–5, the 3 major narrowly oblong and 2–3 mm long forming an inverted Y configuration, 2 minor ones irregularly shaped and fused with major ones to form a plate-like expansion.

Grows onsaline clay soils or gypseous mounds.