4 Chenopodiaceae for Flora of North America, volume four. Submitted November 2000. Leaves petiolate, alternate . Staminate inflorescences in terminal glomerules or at the end of pistillate cymes.
Pistillate flowers solitary in upper leaf axils or forming cymes co-mingled with the male flowers.
Introduced in North America. Ball, P. W. 1964. Axyris L. in Tutin, T. G., V. H. Heywood, N. A. Burges, D. H. Valentine, S. M. Walters, D. A. Webb et al. Flora Europaea, vol. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.