 The species of Betoideae are adapted to different ecological habitats, several growing in coastal habitats, some on rocks and in mountains, one in deciduous forests ("Hablitzia").Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich described the subfamily Betoideae in 1934 within the plant family Chenopodiaceae.He subdivided the taxon into two tribes, Hablitzieae and Beteae, the latter with only one genus, "Beta".