e-Key v3 - Key to Restionaceae 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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  • Style 1
002
b
  • Styles 2 or 3
002
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  • Fruit dehiscent
Ischyrolepis feminea
b
  • Fruit indehiscent
002
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  • Perianth chartaceous
  • A rare plant of the Great Swartberg
Staberoha stokoei
b
  • Perianth cartilaginous
002
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  • Male spikelets erect
Calopsis monostylis
b
  • Male spikes pendent
Thamnochortus
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  • Styles 2
002
b
  • Styles 3
002
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  • Ovary dehiscent
002
b
  • Ovary indehiscent
002
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  • Styles fused at the base, if free, bracts longer than florets
Ischyrolepis
b
  • Styles free
  • Bracts shorter than florets
Chondropetalum microcarpum
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  • Culms simple
002
b
  • Culms branching
002
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  • Male florets in spikelets
002
b
  • Male florets racemose
002
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  • Male spikelets pendent
  • Nutlet enclosed by perianth
Staberoha
b
  • Male spikelets erect
  • Perianth shorter than nutlet, if as large, then hyaline
002
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  • Nutlet flattened on one side
  • Female spikelets usually with several florets
Cannomois
b
  • Nutlet round in cross section
002
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  • Male bracts acute
  • Female spikelets always with a single floret
Hypodiscus
b
  • Male bracts rounded
  • Female spikelets with several florets
Nevillea
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  • Perianth segments of male florets valvate, lanceolate
Ceratocaryum
b
  • Perianth segments of male florets linear
Willdenowia
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  • Female spikelets with several florets
002
b
  • Female spikelets with a solitary floret
002
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  • Bracts of female florets hyaline-chartaceous
Hydrophilus
b
  • Bracts of female florets coriaceous to osseous
002
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  • Bracts shorter than perianth
Chondropetalum microcarpum
b
  • Bracts longer than perianth
002
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  • Nutlet shorter than 5 mm
Calopsis esterhuyseniae
b
  • Nutlet longer than 10 mm
Cannomois
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  • Bracts shorter than perianth and nutlet
Elegia
b
  • Bracts overtopping perianth and nutlet
002
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  • Bracts of male florets similar to perianth lobes, linear, hyaline
  • Male florets in racemes
Willdenowia
b
  • Bracts of male florets larger than perianth, not linear
  • Male florets in spikelets
002
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  • Bracts of female florets osseous
  • Male florets in cone-like spikelets
Mastersiella
b
  • Bracts of female florets chartaceous
  • Male flowers in few-flowered spikelets
Anthochortus
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  • Sheaths usually caducous
  • Bracts shorter than florets, or if longer, then hyaline and lacerate
002
b
  • Sheaths persistent
  • Bracts usually cartilaginous, often overtopping florets
002
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  • Ovary 1-locular, indehiscent
Elegia
b
  • Ovary 3-locular, usually at least some locules dehiscent
002
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  • Culms branching
Dovea
b
  • Culms simple
002
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  • Bracts longer than florets
Askidiosperma
b
  • Bracts shorter than florets, or if longer, then not hyaline
Chondropetalum
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  • Culms ± compressed
  • Sheaths green with a stout mucro
  • Seeds white with a fragile surface
Platycaulos
b
  • Culms terete, if compressed, then not with above characters
002
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  • Culms with a simple central axis, and with sterile and/or fertile branches clustered at nodes
  • Male spikelets pendent
Rhodocoma
b
  • Culms usually branching, if simple, then without branches clustered at nodes
  • Male spikelets erect
002
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  • Fruit a capsule, or if a nutlet, then bracts narrowly lanceolate, concolorous
002
b
  • Fruit a 1-locular nutlet
002
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  • Culms branching
Restio
b
  • Culms simple
002
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  • Bracts shorter than florets
  • Spikelets many at several nodes
Chondropetalum
b
  • Bracts at least as long as florets
  • Spikelets few to several
Restio
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  • Culms branching
Calopsis
b
  • Culms simple
Staberoha

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