e-Key v3 - Key to <span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706693788431_17189667186682067" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>Onagraceae<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706693788431_8617121348334422" data-jodit_selection_marker="end" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span> 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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  • Floral tube 0
  • Sepals persistent in fruit after petals have fallen
  • Petals lacking, or if present, yellow
 Ludwigia
b
  • Floral tube present
  • Sepals not persistent in fruit, falling with the floral tube
  • Petals yellow, rose-purple, or white
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  • Flowers irregular
  • Petals white
  • Fruit nut-like, indehiscent, with 2-8 ovules
 *Gaura
b
  • Flowers regular
  • Petals yellow, rose-purple, or white
  • Fruit a dehiscent capsule, with many ovules
 002
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  • Seeds with an evident tuft of hairs (coma)
  • Petals rose-purple or white
  • Capsule slender, > 10 times as long as broad
  • Basal leaves opposite
 Epilobium
b
  • Seeds lacking a coma
  • Petals yellow, rose-purple or white
  • Capsule clavate or elongate, < 10 times as long as broad
  • All leaves alternate
 *Oenothera

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