Pachycornia Hook. f.

Kuehn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 253-281 : 272

51. Pachycornia Hook. f.

Pachycornia Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. , Gen. 3: 65 (1880) Wilson, Nuytsia 3: 16, 17 (1980).

Succulent dwarf shrub. Leaf lobes prominent, fleshy, divaricate. Flowers in triads in the axils of the opposite bracts, dimorphic, the lateral staminate, the central bisexual; perianth 2-lobed, unmodified in fruit; stamen 1. Pericarp hard, fused to and sunk into the woody spicate axis; embryo annular; perisperm present, central. One sp., P. triandra (F. Muell.) J. Black , Australia.