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Shrubs or trees [subshrubs], usually halophytes, rheophytes, or xerophytes. Leaves alternate, scalelike [subulate], small; stipules absent. Inflorescences simple or compound racemes usually equal or more in number to petals, distinct [connate basally or fasciculate], often attached to fleshy nectar disc; pistil (2–)3–4(–5)-carpellate; ovary 1-locular, sometimes almost plurilocular, ovules 2+ per placenta, anatropous, bitegmic; placentation parietal, basal, or parietal-basal; styles [2–]3–4[–5] [absent, stigmas sessile]. Fruits capsular, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds comose at one end [hairy overall]; embryo straight; endosperm absent [scanty, starchy]; thin perisperm often present.

Seeds with or without endosperm, with a tuft of hairs at the apex or all round; embryo straight Shrubs or trees, with slender branches and small scale-like alternate leaves; stipules absent Fruit a capsule Ovary superior, 1-celled, with parietal or basal placentas; styles 3–4, free or united at the base; ovules numerous, ascending Petals as many as the sepals, free Disk present Flowers very small, actinomorphic, usually hermaphrodite, in slender catkin-like spikes or racemes Sepals 4–6, imbricate, free Stamens hypogynous, 5–10, free or connate at the base; anthers 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits Shrubs or trees, with slender branches and small scale-like alternate leaves; stipules absent Fruit a capsule Ovary superior, 1-celled, with parietal or basal placentas; styles 3–4, free or united at the base; ovules numerous, ascending Petals as many as the sepals, free Disk present Flowers very small, actinomorphic, usually hermaphrodite, in slender catkin-like spikes or racemes Sepals 4–6, imbricate, free Stamens hypogynous, 5–10, free or connate at the base; anthers 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits

Fls regular, perfect, hypogynous, 4–5-merous; sep distinct or nearly so; stamens mostly as many (in our spp.) or twice as many as the pet, seated on or beneath a hypogynous nectary-disk; ovary of (2)3–4(5) carpels, unilocular, but sometimes with ± deeply intruded partial partitions, the styles distinct or merely connate at base; ovules on parietal or basal placentas; fr a capsule; seeds several or many, minute, provided with long hairs that usually form a tuft at one end; shrubs or small trees with small, alternate, exstipulate, mostly sessile, commonly subulate or scale-like lvs with embedded, multicellular, salt-excreting glands, and with small fls solitary or more often in slender, scaly-bracteate racemes, spikes, or panicles. 4/100, Old World.

Shrubs, subshrubs, or trees. Leaves small, mostly scale-like, alternate, estipulate, usually sessile, mostly with salt-secreting glands. Flowers usually in racemes or panicles, rarely solitary, usually hermaphroditic, regular. Calyx 4- or 5-fid, persistent. Petals 4 or 5, free, deciduous after anthesis or sometimes persistent. Disk inferior, usually thick, nectarylike. Stamens 4, 5, or more numerous, usually free, inserted on disk, rarely united into fascicle at base, or united up to half length into a tube. Anthers 2-thecate, longitudinally dehiscent. Pistil 1, consisting of 2-5 carpels; ovary superior, 1-loculed; placentation parietal, rarely septate, or basal; ovules numerous, rarely few; styles short, usually 2-5, free, sometimes united. Capsule conic, abaxially dehiscent. Seeds numerous, hairy throughout or awned at apex; awns puberulous from base or from middle; endosperm present or absent; embryo orthotropous.

Disk present Flowers in racemes or spikes or solitary, small, usually bisexual, regular, hypogynous Calyx and corolla distinct, 5–4-merous, imbricate, free Xerophytic or halophytic shrubs or small trees, with slender branches and reduced subulate or scale-like, alternate, exstipulate, glandular-punctate leaves Seeds ? with long hairs, with or without endosperm; embryo straight Fruit a capsule Ovary superior, 1-locular; carpels 3–4; placentas 2–5, basal or parietal, each with 2 or more erect anatropous ovules; styles as many as carpels, free or united below or stigmas sessile Stamens as many as petals and alternate with them, or twice as many in two alternating whorls; filaments mostly free, sometimes ± united, inserted on the disk; anthers 2-thecous, opening by longitudinal slits Flowers in racemes or spikes or solitary, small, usually bisexual, regular, hypogynous Calyx and corolla distinct, 5–4-merous, imbricate, free Xerophytic or halophytic shrubs or small trees, with slender branches and reduced subulate or scale-like, alternate, exstipulate, glandular-punctate leaves Seeds ? with long hairs, with or without endosperm; embryo straight Fruit a capsule Ovary superior, 1-locular; carpels 3–4; placentas 2–5, basal or parietal, each with 2 or more erect anatropous ovules; styles as many as carpels, free or united below or stigmas sessile Stamens as many as petals and alternate with them, or twice as many in two alternating whorls; filaments mostly free, sometimes ± united, inserted on the disk; anthers 2-thecous, opening by longitudinal slits