99, 
1. Leaves opposite and reduced to scales, or alternate 
and spine-tipped. Expected (Salicornia, Salsola). 
Chenopodium 
1. Leaves and inflorescence glandular, 
aromatic. Expected (C. ambrosioides, C. botrys). 
1. Leaves and inflorescence not glandular but often 
farinose (covered with mealy substance in dry 
specimens). 
2. Principal leaves deltoid or rhomic to broadly 
ovate, their margins serrate or sinuate. (Also, 
seeds all horizontal if collected in late autumn). 
3. Leaves with lustrous upper surface, coarsely 
serrate margin, and long petiole, usually not 
farinose; inflorescence short, spreading, 
branched. Expected (C. murale). 
3, Leaves with dull or glaucous upper surface, 
sinuate-dentate margin, tapering to short 
petiole, slightly to densely farinose; 
inflorescence of dense clusters, these 
forming long, short-branching, continuous 
or interrupted spikes. (Spikes may be shorter 
than leaves in C. rubrum). 
4. Terrestrial habitat. 
5. Leaves glaucous above, densely farinose 
beneath; young stem greenish; fresh calyx- 
lobes barely keeled. (Also, leaves and 
inflorescence often red in late autumn; 
leaves subtending the individual spikes 
narrowly linear, unlike the serrate cauline 
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5. Leaves dark green or yellowish, slightly 
farinose beneath; young stem red or purple; 
fresh calyx-lobes strongly keeled. Expected 
(C. paganum). 
