Borsczowia Bunge

Kuehn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 253-281 : 274

63. Borsczowia Bunge

Borsczowia Bunge , Trudy Imp. St.-Petersb. Bot. Sada 5: 643 (1877).

Annual monoecious herb. Leaves semi-cylindrical at the lower part. Staminate flowers small, in small numbers among the pistillate ones; perianth lobes 5, weakly hooded; stamens 5; pistillate flowers in clusters in the leaf axils, the apical ones smaller, with fleshy, 3-5-lobed perianth, the lower ones much larger, slightly vertically winged. Pericarp adnate to the perianth; seeds vertical; heterocarpy common. One sp., B. aralo-caspica Bunge , C Asia.