e-Key v3 - Key to Campanulaceae 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 small, broadly ovate, hard, glabrous, densely imbricate, in 4 rows
Rhigiophyllum
b
  • Leaves not as above
002
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  • Stamens arising high in corolla tube
  • Ovules rarely more than 6
Siphocodon
b
  • Stamens free from corolla or arising on lower portion of tube
002
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  • Ovary 1-locular or incompletely 2-locular, with 4 basal ovules
  • Stamens free
  • Corolla with long slender tube
Merciera
b
  • Ovary 2-5(6-10)-locular
  • Ovules many
002
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  • Capsule indehiscent, tardily opening by the irregular decomposition of the pericarp between the persistent lateral nerves
  • Annuals
Gunillaea
b
  • Capsule dehiscent
  • Annuals or perennials
002
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  • Capsule dehiscing septicidally by 3 longitudinal splits
Namacodon
b
  • Capsule dehiscing not as above
002
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  • Capsule bursting at apex or opening by a terminal pore or lid
002
b
  • Capsule opening regularly by terminal valves
002
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  • Ovary 3(2)-locular
  • Capsule campanulate, opening by terminal cap, walls breaking down in fruit
  • Small prostrate perennial herbs, often mat-forming
Craterocapsa
b
  • Ovary 2-locular
  • Capsule cylindric or barrel-shaped, opening by a terminal pore or bursting irregularly
  • Shrubs or shrublets
002
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  • Inflorescence 1-few-flowered, closely subtended by leaves
Roella
b
  • Inflorescence usually pedunculate
  • Capsule elongate, at length splitting nearly to base into 5 segments
Prismatocarpus
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  • Corolla campanulate or funnel-shaped
Wahlenbergia
b
  • Corolla cylindric
002
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  • Ovary 2-locular, subglobose, hairy
  • Stamens 5, free from corolla tube, included
  • Stigma 2-lobed
Treichelia
b
  • Ovary 3-5-locular
002
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  • Ovary 5-locular
  • Stigma 5-lobed
Microcodon
b
  • Ovary 3(4)-locular
  • Stigma club-shaped, with 3 glandular lobes
Theilera

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