Small tree or shrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 8(10) m in height, wide crown but sparse. Trunk erect 20-40 cm in diameter, rarely wider. Bark greyish-brown, slightly fissured longitudinally. Branches extended-upright, with \u00b1 smooth bark, brown-grey to reddish. Branchlets very slender and flexible, reddish-brown to red, younger branchlets green. Leaves alternate, sessile, without stipules, very short (1-5 mm), wide \u2014frequently wider than long\u2014, squamiform, triangular, with a fairly blunt tip, slightly appressed to the branchlet, embracing it almost completely. The top half of the leaf is sometimes free and slightly recurved backwards. Leaf blade with numerous and clearly visible salt secreting glands. Sometimes, particularly along beds and sabkha margins, this secreted salt is so abundant that it completely covers the leaves, with the plant appearing completely white in all its parts, except for the trunk and the main branches. Racemes (30-70 \u00d7 8-9 mm) grow on young branchlets, with sparse flowers. Flowers relatively large (6-10 mm in diameter), subsessile, with 5 petals (1.5-2 mm long) broadly ovate-elliptic or broadly ovate, pink. Stamens variable in number, even among flowers of the same raceme, but always oscillating between 6 and 12. Nectar disk paralophic and intriguing due to the large number of lobes and stamens. Sepals and bracts \u00b1 ovoid. Fruit a capsule, ovoid-pyramidal [4-6(10) mm long] red, which when open releases numerous minute seeds with tufts of unicellular whitish hairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12081","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n