e-Key v3 - Key to Myrsinaceae Genera
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Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.
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  • Ovary inferior or half-inferior
  • Seeds many, crowded on the surface of the free-central placenta, polyhedral, with smooth endosperm
  • Petals united
  • Fruit crowned with persistent calyx remains
Maesa
b
  • Ovary superior
  • Seeds solitary, depressed-globose, with ruminate endosperm
  • Fruit with calyx sometimes persisting at base
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  • Leaves 5-50 mm long, crowded, not confined to branch ends, the margin minutely serrate
  • Flowers in axillary fascicles
Myrsine
b
  • Leaves usually longer than 50 mm, not as above but often confined to branch ends, entire, crenate or coarsely dentate
  • Flowers in fascicles or inflorescence pedunculate
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  • Tree
  • Peduncles absent
  • Flowers in dense fascicles
  • Anthers sessile, adnate to corolla
Rapanea
b
  • Lianes or shrubs
  • Peduncles present
  • Flowers in racemes or umbels
  • Anthers borne on long filaments
Embelia

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