Agriophyllum M. Bieb

43. Agriophyllum M. Bieb. Agriophyllum M.Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 3: 6 (1819) Annual herbs. Flowers bisexual, solitary or in clusters, these in dense spiciform infloresences; perianth lobes 1-5, free, sometimes wanting, unequal, unmodified in fruit; stamens 1-5, filaments flat; stigmas 2. Fruit clearly overtopping the perianth, strongly compressed at both sides, sometimes winged, 2- beaked at apex, concealed between 2 large bracts; pericarp free; seeds vertical; embryo elliptic-annular; radicle descending; perisperm abundant. Six spp., W and C Asia.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