1	"Lateral flowers of each cymule male, central flower bisexual"	2
1	"All 3 flowers of each cymule bisexual or female"	5
2	"Articles of branchlets 5 mm diam. or more when fresh, terminated by prominent, spur-like lobes"	"Tecticornia triandra"
2	"Articles of branchlets to c. 3 mm diam. when fresh, truncate at apex or with obtuse, shortly spreading lobes"	3
3	"Perianth succulent; style hard and protruding in fruit (especially when dry); coastal or near-coastal"	"Tecticornia arbuscula"
3	"Perianth membranous; style not protruding; inland"	4
4	"Articles of ultimate branchlets obovoid, mostly c. 5 mm long; fruiting articles dry and pithy; pericarp crustaceous, not embedded in woody axis"	"Tecticornia moniliformis"
4	"Articles of ultimate branchlets ± cylindric, mostly c. 10 mm long; fruiting articles thick and woody; pericarp woody and embedded in woody axis"	"Tecticornia tenuis"
5	"Seed white to pale fawn, with concentric rows of prominent, corrugated fins"	"Tecticornia pterygosperma"
5	"Seed brown to black, tuberculate to granular"	6
6	"Opposite bracts of inflorescence not united; articles of ultimate branches 5–10 mm long"	"Tecticornia flabelliformis"
6	"Opposite bracts of inflorescence united; articles of ultimate branches to c. 7 mm long (rarely longer in H. pruinosa and H. indica)"	7
7	"Apex of perianth rounded to truncate"	8
7	"Apex of perianth acute, dorsinventrally flattened"	11
8	"Branches and spikes very slender, smooth in outline (resembling branchlets of Casuarinaceae spp.)"	"Tecticornia lylei"
8	"Branches and spikes undulate in outline"	9
9	"Seed dark reddish-brown to black, covered all over with concentric, horseshoe-shaped, tuberculate ridges"	"Tecticornia pergranulata"
9	"Seed brown, tuberculate or minutely papillate on dorsal ridge, indistinctly patterned on sides"	10
10	"Flowers fused together and to upperbract; dorsal ridge of seeds with rows of concentric horseshoe-shaped tubercules"	"Tecticornia sp. (Connewarre)"
10	"Flowers free; dorsal ridge of seeds with rows of loose papillae or minute tubercules"	"Tecticornia halocnemoides"
11	"Vegetative growth continuing through and beyond spikes; fruitlets united"	"Tecticornia syncarpa"
11	"Spikes terminating branches; fruitlets free"	12
12	"Articles with shortly acuminate lobes, shining; flowering and fruiting spikes rather loose, bracts of fruiting spike shrivelling with age"	"Tecticornia nitida"
12	"Articles with obtuse or broadly acute lobes, dull; flowering and fruiting spikes dense; bracts of fruiting spike not shrivelling, the latter rather barrel-shaped and firmly spongy throughout"	13
13	"Pericarp hard and persistent, completely enclosing seed; margins of bracts often minutely ciliate"	"Tecticornia indica"
13	"Pericarp hardened near apex, but membranous or absent near base; margins of bracts entire"	"Tecticornia pruinosa"