Halothamnus hierochunticus (Bornm.) Botsch. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Aellenia autrani (Post.) Zohary, it is an annual plant, up to 40-50 cm high, with blueish-green branches. It smells unpleasantly like rancid butter. The half-terete leaves are linear to linear-triangular, and up to 30 (rarely 50) mm long. The flowers are at 6-13 mm distance from each other, 2,8-3,3 mm long, somewhat shorter than their bract and bracteoles, with triangular tepals. The stigmas have a truncate apex. The winged fruit is 10-16 mm in diameter, their wings inserting in the middle of the fruit height. The fruit tube has concave sides with sharply prominent ridges (veins). At its bottom, a narrow prominent peripheral rim surrounds the large roundish pits. In the lower parts of the plants, the fruits are heavier with shorter wings, in the upper part fruits are lighter with larger wings.
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