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Pachycornia Hook.

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 : 272

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 3540555099

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scientific name

 Pachycornia Hook.
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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.

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