The flowers are arranged in simple, compact (sometimes globular) partial inflorescences, or in spikes.

The perianth consists of 1-5 white, membranaceous tepals (missing in some Corispermum species) without vascular bundles, not persistent.

[2] All species studied show non-Kranz corispermoid leaf anatomy and C3 photosynthesis.

[2] The tribe Corispermeae was published in 1840 by Alfred Moquin-Tandon (in Chenopodearum Monographica Enumeratio, Loss, Paris, S. 182).

Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich raised it to subfamily level named Corispermoideae in 1934 (in Chenopodiaceae, S. 379–584 in Adolf Engler & Karl Anton Eugen Prantl (Edt.