Tecticornia Hook
- Dataset
- Chenopodiaceae
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Plantae
- phylum
- Tracheophyta
- class
- Magnoliopsida
- order
- Caryophyllales
- family
- Chenopodiaceae
- genus
- Tecticornia
description
Annual herbs or subshrubs, leafless. Inflorescence spiciform; flowers bisexual, in 3 - 5 - flowered cymes concealed by bracts; bracts free, opposite and decussate, with fleshy, upturned outer margins; perianth succulent, 2 - lobed, lobes free from each other and from the surrounding bracts. Pericarp free; seed coat coriaceous; perisperm present; embryo curved. Three spp., Australia, New Guinea.
Name
- Homonyms
- Tecticornia Hook