The fruit tube has concave sides with sharply prominent ridges (veins).

At its bottom, a narrow prominent peripheral rim surrounds the large roundish pits.

[3] The species has been first described in 1912 as Salsola hierochuntica by Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (in: Zur Flora Palästinas.

[1] The distribution area of Halothamnus hierochunticus extends from Turkey (SE-Anatolia),[5] Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Palestine, Jordan, Iraq to western Iran.

[1][2] At two disjunct sites in Iran (Gilan and Fars) the species could have been imported as a weed.

[1] It grows in fields, where partly it seems to be a troublesome weed,[6] and on ruderal places like roadsides or ruins, on loess or sand, often on saline soils, up to 1500 m above sea level.