Oreobliton Durieu

Kuehn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 253-281 : 265

3. Oreobliton Durieu

Oreobliton Durieu , Rev. Bot. Recl. Mens.2: 428 (1847)

Subshrub. Flowers often in i reduced dichasia, these arranged in a racemelike inflorescence; perianth lobes 5, 1-nerved, stellately expanded in fruit, indurated at the base; stamens 5; stigmas 2-3. Fruit circumscissile in the lower third; embryo annular. One sp., O. thesioides Dur. et Moq. , N Africa, coastal mountains of Algeria and Tunisia.