CHENOPODIACEAE
NB Chenopodiaceae is a synonym of Amaranthaceae. The description below is for the Chenopodiaceae. More information under Amaranthaceae.
Morphological description
Erect herbaceous.
Leaves
Leaves usually alternate, fleshy, simple, exstipulate. Leaves spine-tipped (Salsola)
Flowers
Flower tepals 5, fleshy, stamens 5 opposite the tepals, ovary superior.
Different from: Amaranthaceae: tepals scarious, flowers surrounded by scarious bracts..
Distribution: The family worldwide. In Malesia 7 genera of which 5 with native, mostly weedy, species including : - Chenopodium (temperate northern & southern hemisphere), montane weed; - Suaeda (worldwide), lowland.
Notes: Vegetable: Beta*, Rumex*, Spinacia* and Suaeda.
Literature: C.A. Backer, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1949) 99-106.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Chenopodiaceae 83 - Salsola 12.
Illustrations: Fig. 49. Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort. (Chenopodiaceae). Reproduced from J.J. Ochse & R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Vegetables of the Dutch East Indies (1980) fig. 61.
Images in PhytoImages for Amaranthaceae.