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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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  • Inflorescence terminal
  • Placentation parietal
 002
b
  • Flowers axillary
  • Placentation axile
 002
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  • Sepals united into a spathe-like calyx
  • Flowers in a loose, open inflorescence
 *Proboscidea
b
  • Sepals separate
  • Flowers congested into a dense raceme
 *Ibicella
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  • Fruit with 4 longitudinal wings
  • Ovary 2-locular, with 1 or 2 ovules in each locule, if more than 2 ovules then corolla tube produced into a large sac below
 002
b
  • Fruit not as above
  • Ovary 2-locular or falsely 4-locular, with few to many ovules
  • Corolla tube sometimes gibbous at base or produced into a spur
 002
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  • Corolla tube somewhat gibbous at base, but not conspicuously saccate
 Pterodiscus
b
  • Corolla tube with large basal sac
 Holubia
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  • Fruit armed along margin with horny arms bearing recurved spines, or with spiny margins and a few protuberances on face
 Harpagophytum
b
  • Fruit not as above
 002
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  • Trees or shrubs
  • Branches spiny
 Sesamothamnus
b
  • Herbaceous plants
  • Branches without spines
 002
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  • Fruit vertically compressed, convex on lower surface and with 2 conical spines on upper surface
 Dicerocaryum
b
  • Fruit not vertically compressed, beaked, or horned at apex
 002
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  • Fruit with locules unequal, horns, if present, below middle
 Rogeria
b
  • Fruit with locules equal, horns, if present, apical
 002
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  • Fruit beaked
  • Corolla tube not distinctly gibbous at base
 Sesamum
b
  • Fruit 2-horned at apex
  • Corolla tube gibbous at base
 Ceratotheca

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