Compilation
Suaeda monoica

Shrub 1.2–5(–6) m high, trunk often 5 cm or more thick. Leaves linear to linear–oblong, ± flattened on both sides, 13–33(–40) x 1.5–3 mm, tip acute or obtuse, dull to bright green, usually not glaucous, progressively shorter on flowering shoots. Flowers unisexual, usually quite numerous, sometimes contiguous into dense spikes. Male flowers developing first, perianth subglobose, c. 3 mm in diam., deeply divided; anthers filling perianth; ovary reduced to peltate-topped column with rudimentary stigmas. Female flowers much smaller, perianth undivided, tightly enclosing ovary to give appearance of naked flower, staminode-like appendages minute or absent, stigmas 3(–4), linear. Utricle tightly enclosed within membranous perianth, laterally compressed. Seed vertical, 1.5–1.8 x 1–1.3 mm, glossy black.