Subfamily Chenopodioideae (Plants herbaceous; leaves well developed. Inflorescences mostly richly flowered, paniculate; perianth lobes usually 5, not or rarely modified in fruit; ovary superlor or semi-inferlor. Fruits surrounded by the persistent perianth or by bracteoles. Embryo annular or curved; endosperm present.)
Tribe Beteae (Fruit subtended by persistent perianth lobes, opening by a circumscissile lid. Ovary half-inferior.)
*Beta
Tribe Chenopodieae (Plants often with bladdery hairs. Flowers proterogynous, ebracteolate. Ovary superior.)
Chenopodium
*Einadia
Tribe Atripliceae (Flowers usually unisexual; male flowers with a perianth, female ones perianthless, bracteolate. Fruit surrounded by the accrescent bracteoles.)
Atriplex
Exomis
Manochlamys
Tribe Camphorosmeae (Inflorescences usually spiciform or paniculate; flowers usually ebracteolate; perianth persistent in fruit, chartaceous, membranous or scarious.)
Bassia
Kochia
Subfamily Salicornioideae: (Plants succulent; stems often articulate. Leaves reduced. Flowers usually in groups of 3, sunken into cavities in the axis of spiciform inflorescences; perianth often 2-4-lobed. Embryo annular or curved, rarely straight.)
(This subfamily is sometimes placed in its own family, Salicorniaceae J.Agardh (1858), e.g. by Scott (1977a))
Tribe Salicornieae (Leaves usually opposite, connate. Stems articulate.)
Halosarcia
Salicornia
Sarcocornia
Subfamily Salsoloideae: (Plants herbaceous or succulent. Leaves, if developed, mostly linear, Flowers usually 1-3, in the axils of the bracts, usually bracteolate. Embryo spiral; endosperm 0.)
(This subfamily is sometimes placed in its own family, Salsolaceae Moq. (1849), e.g. by Scott (1977a, b))
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Welcome to Biodiversity Advisor 2.0!
Biodiversity Advisor, developed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and its Data Partners, is a system that will provide integrated biodiversity information to a wide range of users who will have access to geospatial data, plant and animal species distribution data, ecosystem-level data, literature, images and metadata.
The integrated information comes from our much-loved Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA) also known as Plants of Southern Africa (POSA), Zoological Database of Southern Africa (ZODATSA), Biodiversity Geographic Information System (BGIS), SANBI's institutional repository (Opus) and others.
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