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Habit Plants annual.
Leaf

blades with margins pinnately lobate or deeply pinnatifid to nearly entire (in distal leaves).

Inflorescences

solitary flowers or in few-flowered glomerules in lax axillary and terminal cymes.

Flowers

perianth segments 5, connate basally or ± distinct;

stamens 1–5 or absent;

styles 2.

Seeds

horizontal.

Dysphania sect. Botryoides

Distribution
Worldwide; native to s North America; n South America; s Eurasia; Africa
Discussion

Species 8–9 (3 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 4, p. 271.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Dysphania
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Chenopodium section Botryoides
Name authority (C. A. Meyer) Mosyakin & Clemants: Ukrayins’k. Bot. Zhurn., n. s. 59: 383. (2002)
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