1	"Annual, prostrate to erect herbs; leaves mostly toothed or lobed (entire in C. vulvaria and C. desertorum)"	2
1	"Perennial shrubs; leaves entire (sometimes hastate)"	9
2	"Tepals glabrous"	3
2	"Tepals mealy, at least when young"	4
3	"Tepals free"	"Chenopodium glaucum"
3	"Tepals united for at least half their length"	"Chenopodium macrospermum"
4	"Seed prominently pitted in approximate spiralled or concentric lines; fruiting tepals widely opened, with prominent midrib; weedy herb of Suggan Buggan area"	"Chenopodium erosum"
4	"Seed smooth or minutely pitted; fruiting tepals enclosing seed"	5
5	"Plants with an unpleasant odour (resembling rotting fish) when crushed"	6
5	"Plants without an unpleasant odour"	7
6	"Tepals shortly united at base only"	"Chenopodium desertorum"
6	"Tepals united to near apex"	"Chenopodium vulvaria"
7	"Stems terete, evenly covered when young with white vesicular hairs; leaves entire, to c. 1 cm long; native, prostrate to weakly erect perennials or annuals"	"Chenopodium desertorum"
7	"Stems ridged and prominently streaked; leaves usually toothed to some extent, the largest exceeding 2 cm in length; weedy, erect annuals"	8
8	"Seed obtuse around equator, shining, smooth; pericarp easily detached from seed"	"Chenopodium album"
8	"Seed acutely keeled around equator, dull, finely pitted; pericarp persistent"	"Chenopodium murale"
9	"Spinescent shrub to c. 2 m high; leaves sparsely mealy, oblong to spathulate, to 3 cm long"	"Chenopodium nitrariaceum"
9	"Shrubs not or hardly spinescent, to 1 m high; leaves distinctly mealy, at least on lower surface, to c. 1.5 cm long"	10
10	"Leaves triangular, hastate or semicircular; fruit succulent, yellow to red; inflorescence a terminal drooping spike"	"Chenopodium curvispicatum"
10	"Leaves mostly ovoid to obovoid; fruit not or hardly succulent; inflorescence erect or axillary"	"Chenopodium desertorum"