e-Key v3 - Key to Araliaceae 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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  • Perennial herbs or shrublets, erect or prostrate, often rooting at the nodes
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  • Trees, shrubs or scramblers
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  • Petiole with membranous stipules at the base
  • Furrows between the fruit ribs smooth
Hydrocotyle
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  • Petiole sheathing at base, without stipules
  • Furrows between the fruit ribs wrinkled
Centella
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  • Fruit flattened, membranous, with distinct, longitudinal veins
  • Leaves digitately lobed
Seemannaralia
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  • Fruit somewhat fleshy
  • Leaves digitately divided or twice divided, sometimes palmatifid
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  • Flowers umbellate, in panicles
Schefflera
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  • Flowers in spikes or racemes
Cussonia

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