e-Key v3 - Key to Araceae 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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  • Aquatic herbs, free-floating
  • Leaves forming a densely pilose rosette
  • Inflorescence hidden, with a single female flower and a few male flowers
* Pistia
b
  • Terrestrial herbs, with subterranean tubers or rhizomes
  • Leaves glabrous or subglabrous
  • Inflorescence with few to many female flowers and several male flowers
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  • Leaf lamina compound
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b
  • Leaf lamina simple
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  • Flowers lacking perianth segments
  • Spadix with naked appendix
Amorphophallus
b
  • Flowers with 4 fleshy perianth segments
  • Spadix lacking naked appendix
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  • Leaf lamina 1-pinnate
  • Filaments of stamens free
Zamioculcas
b
  • Leaf lamina 2- or 3-pinnate
  • Filaments of stamens fused into a tube
Gonatopus
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  • Spathe on elongated peduncle subequalling petioles, showy, convolute at base, persistent
  • Flowers lacking perianth segments
  • Anthers sessile
Zantedeschia
b
  • Spathe borne on short peduncle at ground level, inconspicuous, tubular at base, deciduous
  • Flowers with perianth segments
  • Anthers borne on slender filaments
Stylochaeton

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