1	"Plants aromatic; leaves and perianths with stalked glandular hairs and/or subsessile glands"	Dysphania
1	"Plants not aromatic but sometimes foetid, farinose or glabrous"	2
2	"Inflorescences open dichasial or monochasial cymes; plants glabrous or glabrescent"	3
2	"Inflorescences spicately or paniculately arranged dense glomerules with few to many flowers; plants farinose, at least when young, or glabrous"	4
3	"Leaves linear to linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate; dichasi with sterile, often spinose ultimate branches"	Teloxys
3	"Leaves ovate to elliptic; dichasia without sterile ultimate branches"	Lipandra
4	"Stems unbranched or sparing branched; basal leaves often forming rosettes; perianths often becoming succulent or hard in fruit, sometimes reduced to 1 lobe; stigmas 2-4; seeds vertical"	Blitum
4	"Stems usually branched; basal leaves not forming rosettes; perianths unchanged in fruit, not reduced; stigmas 2(-3); seeds vertical and/or horizontal"	5
5	"Flowers often dimorphic, lateral flowers with 3(-5) segments; seeds mostly vertical, sometimes horizontal; stamens 1-3"	Oxybasis
5	"Flowers not dimorphic; perianth segments 5; seeds always horizontal; stamens almost always 5"	6
6	"Young stems and leaves densely covered with vesicular globose trichomes becoming cup-shaped when dry, mostly persistent at maturity; perianths segments with prominent midveins on inner surfaces; seeds smooth or striate and somewhat rugulose, sometimes pitted"	Chenopodium
6	"Young stems and leaves with vesicular trichomes, becoming totally collapsed when dry, usually caducous, rarely present at maturity; perianth segments with midveins prominent on inner surfaces; seeds distinctly pitted to sometimes rugulose or almost smooth"	Chenopodiastrum