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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 terminal
  • Fruit a capsule, drupaceous or breaking into 4 distinct 1-seeded nutlets (mericarps) or cohering in pairs
  • Herbs, shrubs or trees
 002
b
  • Style gynobasic, fixed on a disc-like base between nutlets or apically on a conical or pyramidal gynobase (receptacle)
  • Fruit of 1 (Trichodesma physaloides) or 4 (rarely 2 or 3 by abortion) nutlets
  • Annual or perennial herbs, occasionally shrubs
 002
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  • Style undivided
  • Flowers 5-merous
  • Stigma usually ring-like below apex of style
  • Fruit breaking into 4 distinct 1-seeded nutlets or cohering in pairs
 Heliotropium
b
  • Style 2- or 4-fid
  • Flowers 4- or 5-merous
  • Stigma capitate or 0
  • Fruit a capsule or drupaceous
  • Perennial herbs, dwarf shrubs, shrubs, trees
 002
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  • Flowers 4-merous
  • Fruit a capsule
  • Style 2-fid
  • Perennial herbs becoming woody at stem bases
 Wellstedia
b
  • Flowers 5-merous
  • Fruit drupaceous
  • Style 2- or 4-fid
  • Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees
 002
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  • Style 2-fid, the 2 branches each terminating in a capitate stigma
  • Fruit a drupe, subglobose, with four 1-seeded stones
 Ehretia
b
  • Style 4-fid, the 4 branches each terminating in an elongate or subcapitate stigma
  • Fruit drupaceous with one stone, up to 4-locular but only one or two locules fertile
 Cordia
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  • Style on a conical or pyramidal gynobase (receptacle)
 002
b
  • Style fixed basally on a disc-like gynobase (receptacle)
 002
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  • Calyx strongly accrescent in fruit
  • Anthers with connectives prolonging into long, twisted appendages above thecae, androecium cone-like
 Trichodesma
b
  • Calyx not or only slightly accrescent in fruit
  • Anthers without prominent terminal appendages
 002
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  • Stamens exserted, filaments long
  • Corolla tube with small swellings at base
 Afrotysonia
b
  • Stamens included, anthers subsessile
  • Corolla tube without a swelling at base
 002
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  • Nutlets 2, outer surface of nutlet with glochidia stellately arranged
 *Rochelia
b
  • Nutlets 4
 002
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  • Outer surface of nutlet verrucose
 *Amsinckia
b
  • Outer surface of nutlet with glochidia (not stellately arranged)
 002
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  • Inflorescence ebracteate
  • Nutlets attached to gynobase for the whole of their length
 Cynoglossum
b
  • Inflorescence bracteate
  • Nutlets attached to gynobase for only part of their length
 Lappula
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  • Corolla contorted in bud
  • Anther connective prolonged into a small trulliform appendage
 Myosotis
b
  • Corolla imbricate in bud
  • Anther connective blunt, not prolonged
 002
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  • Filaments with hairs, scales or protuberances present at base
  • Corolla throat naked
 002
b
  • Filaments without hairs, scales or protuberances
  • Corolla throat with vertical nectar guides, glandular appendages or scales
 002
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  • Ring, composed of a minute collar or 5-10 minute hairy lobules, present at base of corolla tube on inside
  • Corolla irregular, bilabiate
 *Echium
b
  • Hairs or scales present at base of filaments
  • Corolla usually regular
 002
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  • Filaments with hairs, sometimes tufted, at or near base
 Echiostachys
b
  • Filaments with densely hairy scales, ridges or protuberances at base
 Lobostemon
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  • Corolla throat bearing 5 well-developed, elongate, vertical nectar guides
 *Buglossoides
b
  • Corolla throat without nectar guides, but with glandular appendages or scales
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  • Glandular appendages present in throat
  • Nutlets without a collar-like ring around base
 Lithospermum
b
  • Fornices present in throat
  • Nutlets with a distinct, thickened, collar-like ring around base
 Anchusa

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