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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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