Nitraria L.

Woody shrubs, often spiny. Leaves simple, alternate, often clustered, often succulent. Flowers in scorpioid cymes, bisexual on any one bush, or in N. billardierei, often unisexual on a bush. Pedicels usually erect in flower and fruit. Sepals 5, persistent, not downturned in fruit. Petals 5, not persistent, longer than sepals, hooded at apex, white. Stamens 10–15, without appendages. Nectariferous disc annular, inconspicuous. Ovary 3-celled; ovules solitary; style ±lacking; stigmas 3. Fruit erect, fleshy drupe with subtrigonous ornamented stone, 1-seeded.

Grows in dry saline areas, with a single species in Australia.