Halopeplis Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb

Kuehn, 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 : 271

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Halopeplis Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb
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45. Halopeplis Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb

Halopeplis Bunge ex Ung.-Stemb.; Vers. Syst. Salicorn.: 102 (1866).

Annual succulent herbs. Leaves subglobose, fleshy. Flowers bisexual in triads in the axils of spirally arranged bracteal scales, connate to one another and adnate to bracts; perianth connate, compressed 4- edged, 3-dentate at apex; stamens 1(-2); stigmas 2. Seeds vertical; embryo hooked; radicle ascendent; perisperm abundant. Three spp., Mediterr. Europe, N and S Africa, W Asia.