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Piptoptera Bunge

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 : 278

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 3540555099

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scientific name

 Piptoptera Bunge
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89. Piptoptera Bunge

Piptoptera Bunge, Tr. Imp. S.-Petersburgsk. Bot. Sada 5: 644 (1877), 6: 448 (1879).

Annual herb. Leaves alternate, fleshy. Flowers solitary, subtended by 2 leaf-like bracteoles; perianth lobes 5, united at the very base, unequal and winged above the middle in fruit; wing falling off along a definite line of dehiscence and leaving behind a 2-lobed protuberance; stamens 5; anthers appendiculate; stigmas 2, subulate. One sp., R. turkestana Bunge , Transcaspian lowlands.

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