Leaf blades thin or thick, base acute to truncate, margins entire, dentate, serrate, or sinuate-dentate, glabrous or farinose. Inflorescences glomerules in loose or dense compound spikes, occasionally cymes. Seeds usually less than 1.5 mm diam., margins rounded or acute; seed coat smooth or honeycombed.

Distribution

Worldwide.

Discussion

Species 100+ (25 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Chenopodium subsect. Chenopodium, Chenopodium subsect. Favosa, Chenopodium subsect. Fremontia, Chenopodium subsect. Leptophylla, Chenopodium subsect. Polysperma, Chenopodium subsect. Standleyana, Chenopodium subsect. Undata, Chenopodium subsect. Urbica