e-Key v3 - Key to Oleaceae 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 woody capsule
  • Corolla salver-shaped, tube well developed, lobes spreading, with a group of swollen hairs at base of lobes
Schrebera
b
  • Fruit a drupe, berry or membranous capsule
  • Corolla lobes without a group of swollen hairs
002
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  • Fruit a membranous capsule
  • Shrublets or perennial herbs
  • Corolla yellow, often with reddish tinge
Menodora
b
  • Fruit a drupe or berry
  • Trees, shrubs or scramblers
  • Corolla white to pink or cream
002
Backtrack a
  • Corolla tube long and slender, lobes spreading abruptly
  • Scramblers or bushy shrubs
Jasminum
b
  • Corolla tube short or absent
002
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  • Leaves on flowering branches usually with acarodomatia
  • Calyx deeply lobed
  • Inflorescence few-flowered
  • Seeds without endosperm
Chionanthus
b
  • Leaves without acarodomatia
  • Calyx toothed or shallowly lobed
  • Inflorescence many-flowered
  • Seeds with endosperm
Olea

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