e-Key v3 - Key to Tiliaceae 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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  • Fruit a somewhat fleshy to dry, (1)2-4-lobed drupe
Grewia
b
  • Fruit a glabrous, hairy or densely bristly capsule
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  • Flowers white, pinkish or mauve, 4-merous
  • Some stamens sterile with no anthers or, if sterile stamens very few or apparently absent, the filaments nodose
Sparrmannia
b
  • Flowers yellow, 5-merous, sometimes 4-merous but then capsule pod-like
  • All the stamens fertile, filaments never nodose
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  • Fruits globose, bristly, spiny or with conical, spine-tipped tubercles
  • Ovules 2 per locule
Triumfetta
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  • Fruits usually long and pod-like, rarely ellipsoid or ovoid
  • Ovules more than 2 per locule or, if only 2, then capsule smooth
  • Leaves often tailed at the base
Corchorus

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