Maireana appressa

Erect, grey shrub to c. 70 cm high; stems densely white-woolly. Leaves alternate, mostly appressed to branches at least when young, linear to narrowly ovate, 2–8 mm long, subterete, rather densely covered with white, short curled hairs. Flowers bisexual, glabrous or perianth lobes sparsely ciliate along margins. Fruiting perianth 9–13 mm diam., flat at apex with margins of perianth lobes upcurved forming 5 radial ridges; tube hemispherical to broadly obconical with narrowed stipe-like base, c. 3 mm diam., thin-walled, point of attachment immersed within base and usually oblique; wing undulate, papery, indistinctly veined; radicular slit apparent on wing, represented on tube as a narrow ridge. Fruits mostly Aug.–Oct.