Suaeda
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Annual or perennial leaf succulent herbs, or subshrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers bisexual or pistillate, in clusters of (1-)3(-9) in the axils of bracts, subtended by usually 3 scarious bracteoles; perianth 5-lobed, the lobes free or united to the middle, keeled, or rounded on the back, sometimes cucullate or horned; stamens 5, exserted. Pericarp free from the perianth, heterocarpy common; seeds horizontal or vertical. Zn = 18, 54. About 100 spp., worldwide. Iljin (l.c.) distinguished eight sections.