Salicornia uniflora Toelken

Herbaceous annual, erect, up to 20 cm high and 15 cm in diameter; lateral branches fastigiate but not arising at an acute angle to the main branch. Barren segments cylindrical to barrel-shaped with keeled leaf apices and lateral ridge, 4-8 mm long, 2-3(4) mm in diameter, glaucous green fading to bluish-red; leaf apices scarcely spreading when dried. Sclereids in the palisade tissue spirally thickened. Spikes terminal and lateral, (8-)10-20(-30) mm long, tapering when flowering and fruiting. Cymules 1-flowered, rarely 2, 3-flowered; central flower much larger than the lateral flowers and rounded at the apex; flowers protandrous. Perianth tube with three crenate segements, truncate with lateral shield, sometimes adhering to seeds. Anthers 2, 0-5-0-8 mm long. Stigma tufted. Seeds compressed oblong, brown, 2-3 mm long, with membranous testa covered with long hairs, adpressed, coiled at the apex; endosperm absent: embryo conduplicate.