The presence of persistent winged perianth is a good diagnostic character which distinguishes the Chenopodiaceae from the allied family Amaranthaceae. This character is present only in few genera of the Chenopodiaceae. Are this perianth characteristic has a taxonomic weight in the revision of the family.
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Chenopodiaceae has in genera of (1) 2-5 segments (rarely up to 8),
and the 5 stamens are in opposite to perianth.
But it need to know, that the number of stamens can be variable ...
and taxonomy can't made with only one character
If this characteristic is present in a few species of this family, it is considered characteristic of these genus from the other genus belonging to this family because of the characteristics of this family is that the perianth is consists of Green Five small sepals usually remain attached to the fruit and it is apetalous
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