e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706702565758_5562623512220695" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Portulac<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706702565758_16402601716056453" data-jodit_selection_marker="end" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>aceae Genera
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Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.
Backtrack a
  • Sepals adnate to base of ovary
  • Ovary half-inferior
  • Seed dispersal by circumscissile split
 Portulaca
b
  • Sepals free
  • Ovary superior
  • Fruit indehiscent or splitting into valves
 002
Backtrack a
  • Herbs or subshrubs
  • Ovules many
 002
b
  • Much-branched glabrous shrubs to small trees with waxy bark
  • Leaves succulent
  • Ovules solitary
 002
Backtrack a
  • Leaves without axillary hairs or scales
  • Stipules 0 or, if present, linear, caducous
  • Fruit a capsule or thin-walled nut
 002
b
  • Leaves with stipules, axillary hairs and/or scales
  • Fruit a capsule usually with the pericarp differentiating into epicarp and endocarp, which often separate, and sometimes the epicarp is deciduous
 002
Backtrack a
  • Leaves fleshy and nearly terete
  • Sepals deciduous
 Talinum
b
  • Leaves not fleshy, flattened
  • Sepals persistent
 *Calandrinia
Backtrack a
  • Green leaves exposed, if more than 2, then in a rosette
  • Flowers usually 2 or more on an elongated scape
 Anacampseros
b
  • Green leaves not or only slightly exposed, hidden beneath imbricate papery scales making the shoots appear white
  • Flowers 1 or few at the stem tip on short pedicels
 Avonia
Backtrack a
  • Flowers bisexual, fascicled, usually in groups on shortened, terminal, leafless branchlets
 Portulacaria
b
  • Flowers unisexual, rarely bisexual, arranged in fascicles or axillary racemes
 Ceraria

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