e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706693230422_5352192177891983" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Nyctagin<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706693230423_7805228858072759" 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
  • Herbs, sometimes woody towards the base
 002
b
  • Shrubs, woody climbers or trees
 002
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  • Flowers longer than 30 mm
  • Bracts large, connate, forming a calyx-like involucre
  • Branches soft and brittle
 *Mirabilis
b
  • Flowers shorter than 20 mm
  • Bracts small, free
 002
Backtrack a
  • Perianth funnel-shaped, slightly lobed
  • Flowers relatively conspicuous
  • Stamens well exserted
 Commicarpus
b
  • Perianth cylindrical, relatively small and inconspicuous
  • Stamens slightly exserted
 Boerhavia
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  • Shrubs with spinescent branchlets
  • Leaves linear, alternate and often fascicled
  • Anthocarp winged
 Phaeoptilum
b
  • Woody climbers, shrubs or trees usually with hooked spines
  • Leaves broad, mostly opposite, sometimes alternate or whorled
  • Anthocarp with rows of stout, stipitate glands
 Pisonia

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