Bassia
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Description
Annual herbs or subshrubs. Flowers bisexual or pistillate, solitary or in spicate inflorescences; perianth urceolate, with 5 inflexed lobes; fruiting perianth acCrescent with spine-like or tubercle-like appendages or membranous; scarious wings at the back; stamens 5; stigmas 2. Pericarp free from seed coat; seeds usually horizontal; embryo annular; radicle centrifugal; perisperm usually abundant, mealy. 2n = 18, 36, 54. 21 spp., Europe, Asia, Africa and N America. Kochia (Kochia) Roth is sometimes given separate generic rank.