I. Friis & M.G. Gilbert (1993) Sevada. Flora of Somalia 1: 134-135
Plants small shrubs. Leaves alternate to opposite, often in axillary tufts on older shoort, fleshy with short, constricted, brown, indurate bases. Inflorescences on stems with reduced leaves or bracts, dense axillary flower clusters, often forming more or less continuous spikes; bracteoles small, scarious. Flowers more or less sessile, 5-merous, central flowers of the clusters bisexual, outer flowers sometimes female and with smaller perianths; perianths at anthesis with short tubes and incurved lobes, the lobes fleshy and usually with dorsal, more or less gibbous appendages at the base; stamens 5, anthers exserted, alternating with small and more or less fleshy, staminode-like scales; styles tapered, with 2(-3) short, recurved stigmans. Fruiting perianthsof bisexual flowers more or less cylindrical, tubes half to 2/3rd total perianth length, bases sometimes slightly enlarged, lobes incurved and gibbous at the base; fruiting perianths of female flowers with shorter tubes and more erect lobes; fruits ovoid, slightly longer than the perianths, thick-walled, nutlike; seeds vertical, testas very thin.
Sevada includes only one species, Sevada schimperi. It grows in both Somaliland and Somalia, extending into Djibout, Egypt, and tropical Arabia.
Boulos L., I. Friis, & M. G. Gilbert (1991) Notes on the Chenopodiaceae of Ethiopia, Somalia and Southern Arabia. Nordic Journal of Botany 11: 309-316.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.