Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Tamaricaceae
Genus:Reaumuria
EditorOsmonali Bektemir
Scientific name: Reaumuria songarica (Pall.) Maxim.
Herbar:list records    scans available    
Synonym: Tamarix soongorica Pallas (acc. to Flora of China online)
Description:Shrubs, small, 10-30(-70) cm tall, much branched. Old branches gray-brown; branchlets reddish, usually zigzag, longitudinally cracked. Leaves 1-5 mm, shortly terete, scale-like; petals 3-4.5 mm; stamens 7-10; styles 6-8(-12); capsule narrowly ellipsoid.
Link to Flora of China:http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242343205
Habitat:On salt marshes, in saline desert steppes, rocky and fine-grained semi-deserts.