e-Key v3 - Key to Plumerioideae 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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  • Ovary entire
002
b
  • Ovary of 2 separate or almost separate carpels
002
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  • Ovary 2-locular, with 1-4, rarely many, ovules in each
  • Shrubs or trees, rarely scandent
002
b
  • Ovary 1(2)-locular, with many ovules
  • Woody climbers or rarely shrubs
002
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  • Unarmed shrubs or trees
  • Inflorescence axillary
Acokanthera
b
  • Armed shrubs, sometimes scandent
  • Inflorescence terminal or pseudo-axillary
Carissa
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  • Inflorescence of elongate, branched, terminal panicles
Ancylobothrys
b
  • Inflorescence contracted, short and often clustered, terminal or axillary
Landolphia
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  • Stems subherbaceous, not taller than 1.5 m
* Catharanthus
b
  • Stems woody; shrubs, trees or climbers
002
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  • Fruit baccate or drupaceous
002
b
  • Fruit follicular
002
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  • Fruit a drupe
  • Ovules 2 in each carpel
Rauvolfia
b
  • Fruit baccate
  • Ovules many in each carpel
002
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  • Calyx with distinct tube which is circumscissile at base
Voacanga
b
  • Calyx divided almost to base
002
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  • Fruit of 2 large, subglobose mericarps
  • Corolla tube shorter than 10 mm
Tabernaemontana
b
  • Fruit syncarpous, bilobed
  • Corolla tube longer than 10 mm
Callichilia
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  • Ovules many in each carpel
  • Leaves oblong to oblanceolat
  • Ffruit longitudinally striate
Gonioma
b
  • Ovules 2-4 in each carpel
  • Leaves usually broadly ovate-elliptic
  • Fruit lenticellate
Diplorhynchus

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