Halanthium C. Koch

Kühn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J. G. & Bittrich, V. (Editors). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 253-281 : 276

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Halanthium C. Koch
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78. Halanthium C. Koch

Halanthium C. Koch, Lirmaea 17: 313 (1844)

Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, subcylindrical. Flowers solitary, clustered at apex of the branches; subtended by 2 indurating bracteoles; perianth lobes 5, free almost to base, in fruit the 2 outer usually producing a wing-like outgrowth below the middle; stamens 5, with bladdery-saccate appendages; staminodes absent; stigmas 2, i subulate. Seeds vertical. Three spp., W and C Asia.