e-Key v3 - Key to Santalaceae 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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  • Fruit a nut
  • Hemiparasitic herbs or subshrubs
  • Leaves usually small to scale-like
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b
  • Fruit a drupe
  • Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent
  • Leaves usually well developed
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  • Flowers unisexual, generally 4-merous
Thesidium
b
  • Flowers bisexual, generally 5-merous
Thesium
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  • Leaves opposite
002
b
  • Leaves alternate
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  • Flowers generally 5-merous
  • Leaves subsessile with cordate base
Rhoiacarpos
b
  • Flowers generally 4-merous
  • Leaves shortly petiolate with cuneate base (= Colpoon)
Osyris
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  • Flowers generally 3-merous, bisexual or male
  • Fairly densely branched small trees or shrubs
Osyris
b
  • Flowers generally 5-merous, bisexual
  • Weak, loosely branched shrubs
Osyridicarpos

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