Habit: Perennial herb.
Stem: generally few-branched.
Leaf: entire.
Inflorescence: staminate flowers generally 1, pistillate 2--4[6], pedicelled in fruit or not.
Staminate Flower: stamen 1, filament slender, anther 2--4-chambered.
Pistillate Flower: style short, stigma peltate.
Fruit: compressed, abaxially curved, ridged, toothed, adaxially +- straight, base stalk-like, tip beaked.
Species In Genus: +- 5 species: +- worldwide.
Etymology: (Gian G. Zannichelli, Venetian botanist, 1662--1729)
Jepson eFlora Author: Robert F. Thorne, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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