Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Tecticornia Hook

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Description

56. Tecticornia Hook f.

Tecticornia Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook f., Gen. Pl. 3: 65 (1880) Wilson, Nuytsia 1: 277-288 (1972).

Annual herbs or subshrubs, leafless. Inflorescence spiciform; flowers bisexual, in 3-5-flowered cymes concealed by bracts; bracts free, opposite and decussate, with fleshy, upturned outer margins; perianth succulent, 2-lobed, lobes free from each other and from the surrounding bracts. Pericarp free; seed coat coriaceous; perisperm present; embryo curved. Three spp., Australia, New Guinea.

Notes

Published as part of Kuehn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, pp. 253-281 in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2, Berlin, Heidelberg :Springer-Verlag on page 273

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Biodiversity

Family
Chenopodiaceae
Genus
Tecticornia
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Caryophyllales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Hook
Taxon rank
genus