It grows as an erect or spreading succulent perennial herb or shrub, from ten centimetres to a metre high (3.9 in to 3 ft 3 in).

Its leaves are reduced to tiny scales sheathing the stem joints.

[1][2] The species was first published in 1881 by Ferdinand von Mueller, under the name Statice salicorneacea.

[3] It was transferred into Limonium by Otto Kuntze in the 1890s, where it remained until 1982, when Igorj Alexandrovich Linczevski erected Muellerolimon for it.

[4] It grows in coastal mudflats and salt marches of Western Australia.