Small tree, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 8(10) m in height, or more frequently an erect shrub, fairly sparse, irregular in shape. Trunk \u00b1 erect, with greyish-brown bark and highly fissured in older specimens. Branches with slightly fissured bark, darker. Branchlets brownish or reddish-brown, younger branchlets greenish. Leaves alternate (2-5 mm), squamiform, triangular-lanceolate to linear, with an acute tip, sessile, slightly applied, freer than in the other species of the genus, without stipules. Often the first buds of the year show particularly large leaves, up to 1 cm long. Leaf blade with clearly visible salt secreting glands, especially in more saline habitats. Racemes large (40-150 \u00d7 7-12 mm), longly pedunculate, sparse, usually born on the branchlets of previous years. Flowers tetramerous, with 4 petals 3-5.5(5.5) \u00d7 1.3-2 mm, from narrowly obovate to unguiculate, white or pink. Calyx with 4 sepals, (1,7)2-3(3,5) mm. Bracts (3)4-7(8) mm, oblong or oblong-linear, same length or longer than the calyx. Bracts and sepals all green. Stamens 4 and styles 3. Pentamerous flowers rarely seen, especially during the later stages of the flowering period or during secondary flowerings. Staminal disk paralophic, with the apex of the disk lobes slightly wider than the base of the stamens. Fruit an ovoid capsule, 6-8 mm long, dehiscent in 4(3) valves, which when open releases numerous seeds with a long and dense tuft of white unicellular hairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12090","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n