Small tree or shrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 8(10) m in height, wide crown but sparse. Trunk straight, sometimes fairly tortuous, with brownish-grey bark, that can be highly fissured longitudinally in the older specimens. Branches extended-erect, with-dark brown, red or purple bark, slightly or not fissured. Branchlets variable in colour, from green to deep red. Leaves (1.3-3 mm) alternate, sessile, without stipules, squamiform, triangular-lanceolate, with a \u00b1 acute tip. Leaf blade sometimes with numerous and visible salt secreting glands (especially in habitats of high salinity). Flowers in long racemes, 20-50(100) \u00d7 3-5 mm, born on the branchlets of the year. New shoots and inflorescence rachis usually smooth at the begining of flowering, and papillose in later flowerings. Flowers pentamerous, with 5 petals (1.2-1.6(1.7) \u00d7 0.5-1 mm), white or pink; 5 green sepals and 5 stamens. Bracts widely triangular to subulate, from slightly shorter to slightly longer than the calyx. Staminal disk synlophic. Fruit a capsule, ovoid-pyramidal, small (3-5 mm), red, with numerous seeds inside. Each seed has a long tuft of white unicellular hairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13590","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n