e-Key v3 - Key to Flacourtiaceae 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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  • Leaves opposite
Pseudoscolopia
b
  • Leaves alternate
002
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  • Petals with a fleshy gland on the inner face or staminodes petaloid with fleshy glands
002
b
  • Petals or petaloid staminodes without fleshy glands
  • Petals sometimes 0
002
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  • Stamens numerous
  • Petals spirally arranged
Rawsonia
b
  • Stamens 10-12
  • Petals whorled
Kiggelaria
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  • Petals present
002
b
  • Petals 0
002
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  • Petals more than sepals
002
b
  • Petals as many as sepals
002
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  • Branches spiny
  • Fruit globose, indehiscent
Oncoba
b
  • Branches without spines
  • Fruit ovoid, beaked, dehiscing into 4-8 valves
Xylotheca
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  • Stamens numerous, not collected in bundles opposite petals
  • Fruit a berry
Scolopia
b
  • Stamens equal in number to petals or in bundles opposite petals
  • Fruit usually a capsule
002
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  • Leaves with 5-9 nerves from base
  • Flowers unisexual
  • Seeds with a red aril
Trimeria
b
  • Leaves penninerved
  • Flowers bisexual
  • Seeds without an aril
002
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  • Style simple with a capitate or minutely bilobed stigma
  • Flowers in pedunculate cymes
  • Stipules deltoid
Gerrardina
b
  • Styles 2-6 or 2-6-cleft
  • Flowers in racemes or panicles
  • Stipules 0 or large and orbicular or reniform
Homalium
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  • Leaves with linear or circular pellucid glands
Casearia
b
  • Leaves without pellucid glands
002
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  • Stamens in bundles of 3-10 alternating with disc glands
Trimeria
b
  • Stamens not in bundles
002
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  • Flowers bisexual
  • Style very short
  • Stigma peltate
  • Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate
Aphloia
b
  • Flowers unisexual or more rarely bisexual
  • Styles 2-8
  • Leaves elliptic to obovate or orbicular
002
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  • Stamens surrounded by a ring of disc glands
  • Ovary incompletely 4-8-locular with 2 ovules per locule, one above the other
Flacourtia
b
  • Stamens intermingled with disc glands and alternating with them
  • Ovules 1-6 per placenta
Dovyalis

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