Explore: Chenopodiaceae

its type genus Amaranthus. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it the most

Salsoloideae are a subfamily of the Amaranthaceae, formerly in family Chenopodiaceae. These are herbs, subshrubs, shrubs and some trees. Stems and leaves

spinach. For many years, it was classified in the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), but it has now been absorbed into the Amaranthaceae. It is Eurasian

but were included – together with other subfamilies – in the family Chenopodiaceae, or goosefoot family, in the Cronquist system. Food species comprise

the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae (sensu lato, including the Chenopodiaceae). Important characters are succulent, often articulated stems, strongly

G.; Mucina, L.; Freitag, H. (2006). "Phylogeny of Salicornioideae (Chenopodiaceae): diversification, biogeography, and evolutionary trends in leaf and

the widely used Cronquist system, separate it and its relatives as Chenopodiaceae, but this leaves the rest of the Amaranthaceae polyphyletic. However

contains the most species. Of the families in the Caryophyllales, the Chenopodiaceae use C4 carbon fixation the most, with 550 out of 1,400 species using

saltbush. Traditionally, Sarcobatus has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 recognizes it as the sole genus in the

amaranth family Amaranthaceae (including the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae) contains around 800 known C4 species, which belong to 14 distinct lineages