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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Suaeda conferta
|accepted_authority=(Small) I. M. Johnston
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Arnold Arbor.
|place=24: 230. 1943
|year=1943
}}
|common_names=Tufted sea-blite
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Dondia conferta
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bull. New York Bot. Gard.
|publication_place=1: 280. 1899
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Suaeda insularis
|authority=(Britton) Urban & Ekman
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Suaeda;Suaeda sect. Limbogermen;Suaeda conferta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Suaeda]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Suaeda sect. Limbogermen]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Suaeda conferta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 396
|treatment_page=page 397
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> forming dense tufts and mats, 2–10 × 2–50 dm. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to decumbent, gray, branched, very brittle, occasionally rooting at nodes, glabrous, leaf scars ± knobby; branches prostrate to spreading, glaucous. <b>Leaves</b> crowded at tips of vegetative stems; petiole flat, ± 1 mm; blade glaucous, ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid; 2–10 × 1–2 mm, apex rounded. <b>Glomes</b> usually confined to distal stems and branches, forming ± densely crowded, ascending compound spikes, 1–5-flowered; branches 1–1.5 mm diam., as thick as vegetative ones; bracts glaucous, leaflike in shape, 1–5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or pistillate; perianth 2–3 mm diam.; perianth segments proximally connate; ovary ± vase-shaped with necklike extension; stigmas 2–3. <b>Seeds</b> horizontal or vertical, 0.8–1.2 mm; seed coat black.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy beaches and dunes, saline flats, mostly on bare soils
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Suaeda conferta
|authority=(Small) I. M. Johnston
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Suaeda insularis
|basionyms=Dondia conferta
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy beaches and dunes, saline flats, mostly on bare soils
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Arnold Arbor.
|publication year=1943
|special status=
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|genus=Suaeda
|section=Suaeda sect. Limbogermen
|species=Suaeda conferta
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