1	"Leaves in 2 ranks; fruiting perianths with red wings"	2
1	"Leaves spiral; fruiting perianths with white or pale brown wings"	3
2	"Leaves up to 6.5 mm long, more or less cylindrical but deeply grooved on upper surface, with silvery appressed pubescence"	"Salsola rubescens"
2	"Leaves up to 3.5 mm long, abruptly contracted from wide bases, more or less prow-shaped, velvety tomentose"	"Salsola pycnophylla"
3	"Fruiting perianths 6-8 mm in diameter (including wings); perianth segments with conspicuous scarious margins"	"Salsola africana"
3	"Fruiting perianths up to 5 mm in diameter (including wings); perianth segments without scarious margins"	4
4	"Plants rigid shrubs with divaricate branching; lateral branches spine-tipped, without an unusual smell; leaves blue-green, with closely appressed medifixed hairs when young"	"Salsola spinescens"
4	"Plants sprawling shrubs with irregular branching; branches not spine-tipped, with strong foetid or fishy smell when bruised; leaves green with suberect simple hairs when very young"	"Salsola imbricata"