e-Key v3 - Key to Helenieae Genera
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Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.
  • Key based on Hilliard: 324 (1977)
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  • Involucral bracts connate for most of their length, gland-dotted
* Tagetes
b
  • Involucral bracts free, not gland-dotted
002
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  • Involucral bracts many, appressed hairy, margins with long bristles
* Gaillardia
b
  • Involucral bracts few (± 3-6), glabrous
002
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  • Leaves pinnate, alternate
  • Individual heads solitary on long peduncles
* Schkuhria
b
  • Leaves simple, opposite
002
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  • Capitula small, aggregated into secondary capitula, terminal and axillary
  • Pappus 0
* Flaveria
b
  • Capitula large, solitary on long peduncles at ends of branches
  • Pappus present, of ± fimbriately winged setae, usually uncinate
Hypericophyllum

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