Restoration of Suaeda sect. Helicilla (Chenopodiaceae) and typification of its related taxa Author Freitag, Helmut Plant Taxonomy and Morphology, Institute of Biology, University of Kassel, 34132 Kassel, Germany Author Lomonosova, Maria N. Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia text Phytotaxa 2017 2017-09-26 323 1 51 60 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.323.1.3 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.1.3 1179-3163 13696882 Suaeda sect. Helicilla (Moq.) Baillon in Baillon (1887: 195) . ≡ Helicilla Moquin-Tandon (1849: 169) . Type :— Suaeda glauca (Bunge) Bunge – “ Suaeda sect. Glaucae “ in Freitag & Lomonosova (2012: 104) , nom. inval. (Art. 36.1c). Improved diagnosis: —The sect. Helicilla differs from the similar sect. Schanginia by stems with marked collenchymatic ridges, leaves being narrow, biconvex and containing distinct water-storage mesophyll, flowers with usually 2 stigmas, irregular fruits which are apically flattened and strongly carinate, and regular (spherical) seeds having a prominently reticulate seed coat pattern attributable to sunken lines above the anticlinal cell walls aligned with narrow ridges. Also the nuclear ITS and plastid psb B- psb H and atp B- rbc L sequences widely deviate. Species richness: —A monotypic section.