Tamarix L.
Shrubs or small trees. Lvs scale-like or ericoid, sheathing, with sunken salt-secreting glands. Fls pink or white, either borne in axillary spike-like racemes on the previous season's shoots or in terminal panicles on the current season's growth, sometimes on both. Sepals and petals 4-5. Stamens 4-15, sometimes partly antipetalous. Disc fleshy, nectar-secreting, 4-5-lobed. Styles 3-4, short. Seed with apical tuft of hairs.
Key
c. 50 spp., temperate and subtropical Eurasia and N. Africa. Naturalised spp. 2.
