Tamarix mascatensis Bunge

Shrub or under-sized tree, 2-3 m tall, with reddish brown bark, entirely glabrous. Leaves sessile, somewhat ovate with narrow base, 1.5-2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm broad, acute. Racemes simple, aestival, 1-3 cm long, 34 mm broad, densely flowered. Flowers pentamorous, pinkish. Bracts triangular, acuminte, finely denticulate, 1-(-1.5) mm long. 0.5-0.75 mm broad. Pedicel shorter than the bract, 0.5-0.75 mm long. Sepals fused at the base, ovate, 0.75-1 mm long, 0.5 mm broad, finely denticulate, the outer 2 somewhat smaller and acute, than the inner 3. Petals elliptic-ovate, 1-1.5 mm long, 0.75-1 mm broad. Stamens 1-1.5 mm long, anthers somewhat apiculate, c. 0.5 mm long. Disc epilophic. Styles 3, obovate, ovary stipitate, 0.5-0.75 mm long. Capsule 3 mm long.

Distribution: Somalia, Skotra Island, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Russia (Caucasia) and Pakistan.

Fl. Per.: August.