Intro: Erect annual of salt pannes in coastal marshes.

Stems: Stems single or much-branched, succulent, narrower than flowering spikes, remaining green in autumn.

Leaves: Leaves absent or minute and opposite, scaly or needle-like with a tiny, sharp tooth at the tip.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in branched, erect, terminal spikes; minute and sunken or immersed in the thick, segmented spikes, whose segments are thicker than they are long.

Fruits: Fruit an achene.

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Height: 2-16 in.

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description: Erect annual of salt pannes in coastal marshes.

stems: Stems single or much-branched, succulent, narrower than flowering spikes, remaining green in autumn.

leaves: Leaves absent or minute and opposite, scaly or needle-like with a tiny, sharp tooth at the tip.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in branched, erect, terminal spikes; minute and sunken or immersed in the thick, segmented spikes, whose segments are thicker than they are long.

fruits: Fruit an achene.

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