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|accepted_name=Axyris
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 979. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 420. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Russian pigweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Axyris
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Axyris]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek axyros (a, not, and xyrios, razor), blunt, not cutting, in reference to the mild taste
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 260
|treatment_page=page 308
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, monoecious, covered with rusty-colored, stellate, and whitish simple trichomes. <b>Stems</b> ascending, not jointed or armed, slender. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, petiolate; blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, base tapered, margins entire, plane or revolute, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> glomerules, cymes, or flowers solitary. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in terminal glomerules or at end of pistillate cymes. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers solitary in upper leaf axils or forming cymes commingled with staminate flowers. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual; staminate with perianth segments 3–5, stamens 2–5; pistillate with bracteoles 2, perianth segments 3–4, stigmas 2, filiform. <b>Fruiting</b> structures persistent, accrescent perianth surrounding utricle; utricles winged, obovate to cuneate, laterally compressed; pericarp adherent. <b>Seeds</b> vertical, ovoid; seed coat grayish, granular; embryo horseshoe-shaped; perisperm copious. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 5 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Axyris
|author=Leila M. Shultz
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|distribution=Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Axyris
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