Ceratoides

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Ceratoides

a genus of low monoecious shrubs and subshrubs of the family Chenopodiaceae. The elliptic or lanceolate leaves are covered with stellate hairs, as are the annual shoots. The small, unisexual flowers have a four-parted simple perianth. There are seven or eight species, distributed in Southern Europe, Asia, North America, and—very rarely—North Africa. The plants grow in rocky and gravelly places in steppes, semideserts, and deserts. The USSR has two species: C. latens (formerly Eurotia ceratoides) and C. eversmanniana (formerly E. evers-manniana). C. latens grows in the southern half of the European USSR, in Middle Asia, in Siberia, and in the Caucasus. Both species are used as fuel and fodder, especially for camels.

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