Einadia Raf.
Key
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.
6 spp., Australasia. Native spp. 2, naturalised 2.
As circumscribed here Einadia includes some spp. formerly included in Rhagodia R. Br. Both genera have been revised by Wilson, P. G., Nuytsia 4: 135-262 (1983).
