Zygophyllaceae
The family comprises of prostrate, perennial, biennial or annual herbs, shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, stipulate, stipules persistent, usually pinnately compound or 1-3 foliolate or simple; leaflets flat, thin or succulent or terete, petiolate; stipules paired, persistent, often spinescent. Flowers solitary, axillary or subaxillary, or in cymes, rarely in spicate racemes, ebracteate, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, bisexual, rarely unisexual, hypogynous, pedicalled. Sepals (4-) 5, distinct, free or basally connate. Flower includes 5 petals, distinct or lacking, clawed, inserted on a disc, imbricate or convolute or rarely valvate; stamens 5-15 in 1-3 whorls of 5, often attached to a disc; filament often glandular or appendicular at the base; anther tetrasporangiate and dithecal, opening longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 3 or 5 carpelled, 3 or 5 loculed; pistil 1; style 1; stigma simple. Fruit a loculicidal or a schizocarp, rarely a berry or drupe. Endosperm present or not.
The family of Zygophyllaceae R. Br. (1814) is a large and a widespread distribution family that compresses about 27 genera and approximately 285 species (Sheahan and Chase, 1996, 2000; Beier, 2003). The member of the family mainly distribute in arid and semi-arid of areas especially in saline all over the tropics and subtropics regions