Small tree or shrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 8(12) m in height, irregular in appearance, with sparse foliage. Trunk \u00b1 erect, with fissured brown or brown-dark bark, at least in older specimens. Branches slightly or not fissured, very dark, black or black-purple. Branchlets of the current year green, red or purple, that soon darken. Leaves (1.5-3.5 mm) alternate, sessile, squamiform, triangular-lanceolate, sharply pointed, semiclasping, applied, without stipules. Leaf blade with small salt secreting glands, \u00b1 visible depending on the salinity of habitat. Racemes 20-60(80) \u00d7 6-9 mm, densely covered with flowers. Rachis sometimes papillose. Racemes are born sessile directly onto the woody, blackish branchlets from previous years. The base of the racemes is densely covered with scarious bracts. Flowers pentamerous with 5 petals (2-3.3 \u00d7 1.2 mm) ovate-elliptic to triangular-ovate, white; sepals 5, greenish, unequal, and stamens 5. Bracts triangular to narrowly triangular-oblong, shorter or longer than the calyx. Staminal disk synlophic. Fruit a capsule, ovoid, 4-7 mm, which when open it looks like cotton due to the tufts of white hairs on the seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12084","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n