e-Key v3 - Key to Mutisieae Genera
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Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.
  • Key after Dyer: 660 (1975)
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  • Branched perennials, shrublets, or shrubs
002
b
  • Acaulescent, perennial herbs
  • Heads usually radiate on upright, unbranched peduncles
002
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  • Leaves thick, leathery, becoming shiny above, very woolly beneath
Oldenburgia
b
  • Leaves herbaceous, often tomentose
002
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  • Involucre scales mostly pungent, often recurving
Dicoma
b
  • Involucre scales obtuse not recurved
Pleiotaxis
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  • Pappus bristles long and stout, tawny
  • Lamina of marginal florets very short
Perdicium
b
  • Pappus bristles slender, short or, if long, then pinkish brown or if stout, then whitish
  • Lamina of ray florets usually evident
Gerbera

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