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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
Genera
Families
Chenopodiaceae
Leaves not palmately compound
Chenopodiaceae
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Leaves conspicuous; stems or branches not
succulent
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Leaves flat, usually broad; margins frequently toothed,
sinuate
or
hastate
-
sagittate
; hairs on leaves with swollen
glandular
tips or leaves
glabrous
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Bracts enclosing female flowers greatly enlarged at fruiting (Fig. 34)
Atriplex
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Neither bracts nor
perianth
greatly enlarged in fruit