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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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  • Herbs
  • Fruit a cylindrical, dehiscent capsule
 Cleome
b
  • Woody plants
  • Fruit a globose, ellipsoid, oblong or cylindrical, usually indehiscent berry
 002
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  • Androphore elongated, longer than sepals
 002
b
  • Androphore short, not as long as sepals
 002
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  • Leaves 3-foliolate
  • Upper and lower sepals not enclosing lateral ones
  • Androphore with staminodes at its base
  • Fruit globose
 Cladostemon
b
  • Leaves simple
  • Upper and lower sepals enclosing lateral ones
  • Androphore with a conspicuous nectary at its base
  • Fruit cylindrical
 Cadaba
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  • Calyx rupturing transversely
  • Fruit with 8-10 longitudinal ribs
 Thilachium
b
  • Calyx not rupturing transversely
  • Fruit without ribs
 002
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  • Receptacle or calyx not tubular
 002
b
  • Receptacle or calyx tubular
 002
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  • Branches with stipulate spines
  • Sepals imbricate, orbicular, rarely ovate
 Capparis
b
  • Branches without spines
  • Sepals valvate, lanceolate
 Boscia
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  • Flowers in abbreviated racemes on old wood
  • Calyx lobes not or scarcely spreading
  • Androphore very short
  • Disc absent
 Bachmannia
b
  • Flowers solitary, fascicled or in terminal racemes or corymbs
  • Sepals spreading
  • Androphore about equalling the receptacle
  • Disc present
 Maerua

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