[2] Halothamnus lancifolius is a sub-shrub up to 45 cm high, with blueish-green pale-striped branches.

The tube of the fruit is cylindric, its bottom with deep furrow-like, linear or curved pits.

[2] The distribution of Halothamnus lancifolius covers Syria, Israel and Palestine, Jordan, western Iraq, Egypt (Sinai) and northwestern Saudi Arabia.

It grows on stony ground, often on salty soils, from 400 m below sea level up to 1500 m above sea-level.

[2] The species has been first described in 1853 by Pierre Edmond Boissier as Caroxylon lancifolium (In: Diagnoses plantarum orientalium novarum, ser.