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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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  • Fruit indehiscent, a winged or horned nut
  • Plants often andromonoecious
 002
b
  • Fruit a capsule
  • Inflorescence of bisexual flowers only
 002
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  • Fruit derived from a single ovary, winged, ridged or horned
  • Perianth with free or only basally connate lobes
 Tetragonia
b
  • Fruit compound, derived from a complete inflorescence including the bracts and bracteoles, spiny
  • Perianth connate for ± half its length
 Tribulocarpus
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  • Capsule circumscissile
  • Aril present, covering the seeds completely
 002
b
  • Capsule loculicidal or septicidal, often hygrochastic
  • Seeds never arillate
 002
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  • Operculum of capsule breaking into 2 parts
  • 4 seeds per fruit
 Zaleya
b
  • Operculum of capsule breaking off in 1 piece
  • Many seeds per fruit
 Sesuvium
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  • Ovary locules 1
  • Placentation parietal
 Trianthema
b
  • Ovary locules 2 or more
  • Placentation basal or ovules pendulous
 002
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  • Fruit with septa incomplete, locules 2 with a single basal ovule each
 Acrosanthes
b
  • Fruit with septa complete, locules mostly more than 2
  • Ovules pendulous
 002
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  • Capsules 5-10-locular with 2-many ovules in each locule
  • Distinct expanding keels present
 002
b
  • Capsules 2-5-locular with 1 pendulous ovule in each locule
  • Expanding tissue rudimentary to absent
 002
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  • Capsules depressed at apex, if not then valves with prominent rims
 Aizoon
b
  • Capsule convex at apex, ± rounded
 Aizoanthemum
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  • Stamens as many as perianth lobes
 Plinthus
b
  • Stamens twice the number of the perianth lobes, in pairs alternating with the perianth lobes
 Galenia

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