Tecticornia Hook

56. Tecticornia Hook f. Tecticornia Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook f., Gen. Pl. 3: 65 (1880) Wilson, Nuytsia 1: 277-288 (1972). 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.Published as part of Kuehn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, pp. 253-281 in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2, Berlin, Heidelberg :Springer-Verlag on page 27