[1] Halothamnus beckettii is a sub-shrub only 20–40 cm high, strongly branched and densely foliated.

The half-terete leaves with concave upper side are narrowly triangular, with dense tufts of long curly hairs in their axils, about 11 mm long, and with a cartilaginous spiny apex.

[1] The leaf anatomy of Halothamnus beckettii is unique in this genus: the peripheral bundles at the inside of the layer of Kranz-cells contain extreme amounts of lignified tissue.

[2] Halothamnus beckettii has been first described in 1982 by Victor Petrovič Botschantzev (In: Bot.

It grows in dry places (with yearly precipitation of 100–200 mm) among scattered dwarf shrubs or grasses on plateaus or slopes, on limestone or silty sand, up to 700 m.[1]