e-Key v3 - Key to Rhamnaceae 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
  • Stipules interpetiolar
Lasiodiscus
b
  • Leaves alternate, approximate, sometimes opposite, but then stipules not interpetiolar
002
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  • Climbers with tendrils
Helinus
b
  • Small trees, shrubs, or undershrubs
002
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  • Fruit a fleshy or dry drupe
002
b
  • Fruit a capsule
002
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  • Leaves alternate
002
b
  • Leaves opposite or approximate in pairs
002
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  • Leaves palmately veined
Ziziphus
b
  • Leaves pinnately veined
002
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  • Leaves with entire or remotely toothed margins
Berchemia
b
  • Leaves finely toothed
Rhamnus
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  • Inflorescence a short, axillary umbel
  • Spines usually present
Scutia
b
  • Inflorescence an axillary raceme or cyme
  • Spines absent
Rhamnus
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  • Disc inconspicuous
  • Flowers in lax, terminal and axillary panicles
Noltea
b
  • Disc evident
  • Flowers solitary, in cymes or racemes, spikes or heads
002
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  • Flowers in racemes, spikes or heads, rarely solitary
  • Style simple
Phylica
b
  • Flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered peduncled cymes
  • Style 3-partite
002
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  • Leaf lamina 40-100 mm long, ± crenate, elliptic to elliptic-ovate
Colubrina
b
  • Leaf lamina 15 mm long, entire, ± ovate-cordate
Helinus

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