Heterostachys 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 : 272

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Heterostachys Ung.-Sternb
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50. Heterostachys Ung.-Sternb .

Heterostachys Ung.-Stemb., Atti Congr. Bot. Firenze 1874: 267 268, 33] (1876).

Succulent shrubs with cylindrical leaves. Flowers solitary, free, in the axil of opposite caducuous bracts; perianth compressed, 4-lobed at the apex, lobes unequal; stamens 2; stigmas 2. Fruit sprongy; seeds vertical; embryo semi-annular; radicle ascendent or descendent; perisperm abundant. Two spp., S and C America.