Suaeda aegyptiaca (Hasselq.) Zohary, it is an annual or subshrub herb, up to 30 (-40) cm, erect to procumbent, glabrous or somewhat mealy, glaucous-green, branching from base. Leaves linear, sappy or fleshy, up to 20 x 2 mm, obtuse, often incurved, sessile or sub sessile. Bracts leaf-like, much longer than flowers; bracteoles very small, scarious. Flowers c. 2 mm or more, sessile or sub sessile, hermaphrodite, clustered, arranged in long, leafy spikes which become dense, thickened and elongated when mature. Perianth lobes becoming spongy, ± gibbous-inflated above in fruit and fruit adnate to it in the basal part; seed lenticular, 1 mm, black, smooth-shining.
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