Einadia Raf.

Herbs or low sprawling subshrubs, perennial but often rather short-lived, usually with lax, trailing or interlacing stems. Lvs alternate or opposite, farinose at least when young, petiolate. Fls ♀ or ☿, in glomerules; glomerules often forming short spikes. Perianth segments 5, farinose, variously shaped, erect or spreading, herbaceous or succulent at fruiting. Stamens 1-3. Stigmas 2, slender. Ovary subsessile. Fruiting pericarp either becoming swollen and succulent and forming a ± globose red or orange berry or dry and achenial. Seed horizontal; embryo subannular.