1990 hoben Howard Coombs Stutz und Ge Lin Chu "Proatriplex" in den Rang einer Gattung (in: "American Journal of Botany" 77(3), S. 364). ###>In 1990, it was raised to genus level by Howard Coombs Stutz & Ge Lin Chu (in: "American Journal of Botany" 77(3), p. 364).