Holmbergia Hicken

Kuehn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 253-281 : 265

7. Holmbergia Hicken

Holmbergia Hicken, Apuntes Hist. Nat.l: 65 (1909); Scott Feddes Repert.89: 1-12 (1978).

Climbing shrub. Flowers clustered in leaf axils or arranged in a terminal spike, unisexual; perianth lobes 5, persistent in fruit; ovary globose; stigmas 2. Fruit a spongy berry; seeds vertical; embryo annular; radicle centrifugal. One sp., H tweedii (Moq.) Hicken ex Speg. ,

Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.