Salsola calluna Drège ex C.H.Wright

Perennial, dwarf shrub, 0.2-0.6 m high, stems very woody, much branched. Leaves alternate, scabrous, fleshy, small, up to 2 mm long, furnished with a spur-like, tapered swelling at base and an attenuate, terete, fleshy apex, drying dark brown to black. Bracts ± ovate, fleshy, spurred. Bracteoles ovate-orbicular, fleshy, concave, carinate on outer surface, drying dark brown to black. Flowers pale yellowish green, in dense spikes. Sepals 5, with keeled, green centre, forming wings in fruit, margins hyaline. Stamens 5. Ovary ovoid-globose; style bifid. Flowering time Dec.-June.