Halogeton C.A.Mey. in Ledeb., Icon. Pl. 1: 10 (1829)

Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Liu, Pei-Liang & Kushunina, Maria, 2019, Taxonomic revision of Chenopodiaceae in Himalaya and Tibet, PhytoKeys 116, pp. 1-141 : 118

18. Halogeton C.A.Mey. in Ledeb., Icon. Pl. 1: 10 (1829)

H. glomeratus (M.Bieb.) C.A.Mey. (Type).

Description.

Annual up to 30 cm with a tumble-weed habit at the fruiting stage; young plants often woolly due to abundant curved simple hairs in the leaf axils. Stem and leaves glabrous or shortly papillate. Leaves terete, up to 15 mm long, with a yellowish, easily caducous mucro up to 5.0 mm. Flowers covered with a bract and two bracteoles with two types of perianth (most of the flowers with five hyaline perianth segments (up to 3.0 mm long) with an orbicular white or pink wing (2.0-3.0 mm, sometimes 0.7-1.5 mm in diameter) near their tips; a small part of the flowers with 5 perianth segments hardened almost to the top without any projections or tuberculate). Stamens 2-3. Anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long. Fruit 1.0-1.2 mm. Seeds with vertical embryo, with the radicula pointing upwards. Perisperm absent.

One species widely distributed in Central Asia, South Siberia, Tibet and North Himalaya.