Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Axyris amaranthoides Bassia hyssopifolia Kochia scoparia subsp. scoparia Kochia americana	Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Herbs, annual, monoecious, covered with rusty-colored, stellate, and whitish simple trichomes. Stems ascending, not jointed or armed, slender. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blade ovatelanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, base tapered, margins entire, plane or revolute, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences glomerules, cymes, or flowers solitary. Staminate flowers in terminal glomerules or at end of pistillate cymes. Pistillate flowers solitary in upper leaf-axils or forming cymes commingled with staminate flowers. Flowers unisexual; staminate with perianth segments 3–5, stamens 2–5; pistillate with bracteoles 2, perianth segments 3–4, stigmas 2, filiform. Fruiting structures persistent, accrescent perianth surrounding utricle; utricles winged, obovate to cuneate, laterally compressed; pericarp adherent. Seeds vertical, ovoid; seed-coat grayish, granular; embryo horseshoe-shaped; perisperm copious. x = 9.

Distribution

Introduced; Eurasia

Discussion

Species ca. 5 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Axyris amaranthoides