e-Key v3 - Key to <span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706707016658_536244138660062" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>Sapotaceae<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706707016658_10341350224577273" 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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  • Flowers (4)5(6)-merous
  • Sepals in a single whorl or at least not manifestly in 2 whorls
 002
b
  • Flowers 3- or 4(5)-merous - > 0 sepals manifestly in 2 whorls
  • Petals usually with conspicuous, lateral appendages
 002
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  • Petals deeply 3-lobed
 Inhambanella
b
  • Petals entire
 002
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  • Secondary veins of leaves inconspicuous, surface of lamina divided into small polygonal areoles by tertiary vein reticulation
  • Seeds subspherical, faintly 5-ribbed with small basal scar
 Sideroxylon
b
  • Secondary veins of leaves easily distinguished, lamina not clearly marked into small polygonal areoles
  • Seeds ± compressed-ellipsoid with long lateral scar
 002
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  • Fruit usually 3-5-seeded
  • Seeds laterally compressed, with a hard and shiny testa
  • Endosperm copious
 Chrysophyllum
b
  • Fruit 1(2)-seeded
  • Seeds not much compressed
  • Endosperm absent
 Englerophytum
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  • Flowers generally 3-merous
  • Sepals 6 in 2 dissimilar whorls
  • Stamens as many as calyx lobes
 Manilkara
b
  • Flowers generally 4-merous
  • Sepals 8 in 2 dissimilar whorls
 002
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  • Seeds laterally flattened, with small, basal, circular scar
  • Endosperm present
 Mimusops
b
  • Seeds ellipsoid, not or only slightly laterally compressed, with large scar
  • Endosperm absent
 Vitellariopsis

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