| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Chenopodiaceae |
| Genus: | Nanophyton |
| Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
| Scientific name: | Nanophyton erinaceum (Pall.) Bunge |
| Herbar: | list records  |
| Synonym: | Polycnemum erinaceum Pallas (acc. to Flora of China online) |
| Synonym: | Halimocnemis juniperina C. A. Meyer. (acc. to Flora of China online) |
| Description: | Plants to 30 cm tall. Stem twisted, sinuate, gray-brown to black-brown, rough; older branches crowded, with numerous lateral, dwarf, dry branches; annual branches green, usually 5-10 mm. Leaves 1.5-5 mm, abaxially papillate; leaf axil cottony. |
| Comments: | Tepals are filmy, free, naked, rounded and slightly retreating from the edge with a short pointed, with fruits bubbly increasing to 10 mm long. |
| Link to Flora of China: | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200006895 |
| Habitat: | in the desert, on the gravelly and rocky slopes of the remains of hills and foothills plumes. |