Chenopodiaceae Author Kuehn, U. text 1993 Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg Editor Kubitzki, K. Editor Rohwer, J. G. Editor Bittrich, V. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2 253 281 http://un.availab.le book chapter 3540555099 15. Atriplex L. Fig. 50 Atriplex L. , Sp. Pl.: 1052 (1753) ; Aellen, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68 345-434 (1937/38), 70: 1-61 (1940) ; Kowal, Monogr. Bot. 1 87-163 (1954) ; Tascherau, Can. J. Bot. 50: 1571-1594 (1972) Jones, Watsonia 10: 233-251 (1975) . Obione Geirtner (1791) . Halimione Aellen (1938) . Blackiella Aellen (1938) . Morrisiella Aellen (1938) . Pachypharynx Aellen (1938) . Senniellu Aellen (1938) . Annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs or shrubs, monoecious or dioecious with some bisexual flowers. Flowers solitary or in clusters, these in spiciform or paniculate infloresences; flowers 3-5-lobed; stamens 3-5; bracteoles often triangular, in fruit accrescent, connate, often indurated; stigmas 2(-3). Pericarp free or slightly adherent; seeds vertical, rarely horizontal; fruits heterocarpous; embryo annular; radicle ascending superior to superior. Zn = 18, 27, 36, 45, 54. About 300 spp., worldwide. The genus Pachypharynx was based on two species; the types of both consisted of galled specimens of Azriplex (cf. Wilson 1984).