1	"Plant with obvious leaves; branches not articulate"	2
1	"Plant apparently leafless or with opposite very reduced leaves; branchlets made up of succulent internodes"	26
2	"Leaves flat, often broad, if terete then with mealy hairs when young"	3
2	"Leaves narrow, flat or subterete; hairs (if present) simple, bifurcate or branched (neither glandular nor mealy)"	10
3	"Plant glabrous; fruiting perianths hard, united in clusters; ovary semi-inferior"	Beta
3	"Plant glabrous, mealy, pilose, or glandular; ovary superior"	4
4	"Plant mealy when young; flowers unisexual; male flowers with a 5-lobed perianth and 5 stamens; female flowers lacking a perianth but surrounded by a pair of bracteoles that may be free of fused, often inflated or spongy"	Atriplex
4	"Plant variously pubescent or glabrous; all flowers with a perianth, not surrounded by bracteoles"	5
5	"Plants shrubby, predominantly dioecious; pericarp succulent"	Rhagodia
5	"Plants herbaceous or weakly woody; flowers polygamous or bisexual; pericarp very rarely succulent"	6
6	"Herb with a basal rosette of leaves; perianth-segments 4, cartilaginous in fruit"	Scleroblitum
6	"Plants without a basal rosette"	7
7	"Plants (at least some parts) with glandular or glandular-vesicular hairs"	Dysphania
7	"Plants glabrous, pubescent or mealy"	8
8	"Perianth-segments 5; stamens 1-3; seed horizontal; perennial herbs with mealy indumentum"	Einadia
8	"Perianth-segments 1-5; stamens 1-5; seed horizontal or vertical; mostly annual herbs (rarely perennials), glabrous or with mealy indumentum"	9
9	"Perianth-segments (in lateral flowers) 1; stamen 1; sparsely mealy herb"	Monolepis
9	"Perianth-segments 3-5; stamens 1-5; herb or rarely perennial with mealy indumentum, or glabrous"	Chenopodium
10	"Flowers and fruits fused in axillary clusters of 2 or more"	Dissocarpus
10	"Flowers and fruits solitary or if in pairs then not fused together"	11
11	"Fruiting perianth without obvious appendages"	12
11	"Fruiting perianth with 1 or more wings, spines or tubercles, not succulent"	16
12	"Flowers bibracteolate; embryo spirally coiled"	Suaeda
12	"Flowers without bracteoles; embryo curved or annular"	13
13	"Fruiting perianth succulent, berry-like, split longitudinally to the base"	Enchylaena
13	"Fruiting perianth dry or, if succulent, not berry-like and not split to the base"	14
14	"Fruiting perianth dry or slightly succulent, ovoid to urceolate"	Threlkeldia
14	"Fruiting perianth dry"	15
15	"Fruiting perianth keeled and gibbous on one side"	Osteocarpum
15	"Fruiting perianth not gibbous, segments triangular from above"	Bassia
16	"Fruiting perianth with erect wing or wings"	17
16	"Fruiting perianth without erect wings"	18
17	"Both horizontal and vertical wings present"	Maireana
17	"Only vertical wing or wings present"	Osteocarpum
18	"Horizontal wing or wings present on the fruiting perianth"	19
18	"Spines or tubercles present on the fruiting perianth"	21
19	"Flowers subtended by a pair of prominent spinescent bracteoles; embryo spirally coiled"	Salsola
19	"Bracteoles, if present, minute; embryo annular"	20
20	"Fruiting perianth hemispherical, glabrous; apex truncate extending into a hard narrow 5-angled wing (formerly Sclerochlamys)"	Sclerolaena
20	"Fruiting perianth lenticular to turbinate or globose, with 5 horizontal wings or a simple annular horizontal wing"	Maireana
21	"Plant densely stellate- or dendritic-tomentose; leaves flattened"	Eremophea
21	"Plant with simple or bifurcate hairs (if dendritic then leaves terete) or glabrous"	22
22	"Perianth densely woolly; appendages in two series, 5 erect and 5 horizontal"	Eriochiton
22	"Perianth appendages in one series"	23
23	"Fruiting perianth hard, subglobular, glabrouss, with c. 11 very short radiating spines arising from a narrow horizontal wing (formerly Stelligera)"	Sclerolaena
23	"Fruiting perianth glabrous or hairy, with 1-6 spines, tubercles, or other processes"	24
24	"Perianth appendages 3-5, soft, subcylindrical, woolly, arising from the base of the perianth lobes"	Malacocera
24	"Perianth appendages of spines or tubercles"	25
25	"Fruiting perianth cylindrical, with 5 short spines arising from the base of the perianth lobes; the spines sometimes united into an apical cup-shaped structure"	Neobassia
25	"Fruiting perianth variously shaped; spines or tubercles 1-6, arising from between the perianth lobes"	Sclerolaena
26	"Spike-like inflorescences terminal, cymules 5-13 flowered; perianth lobes 3-4, abaxial lobe present; seed distinctly papillose or with slender hairs"	Sarcocornia
26	"Spike-like inflorescences terminal and lateral; cymules 3 flowered, rarely 5-7 flowered and, if so, lateral spikes present; perianth lobes 2-3, abaxial lobe absent; seed smooth or variously ornamented but never papillose or with hairs"	Tecticornia