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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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  • Ovules 4 in each locule, 2 ascending, 2 pendulous
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b
  • Ovules 2 or 4 in each locule, all ascending
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  • Bracteoles 4 or 6 to each flower, often caducous
  • Pollen grains mostly 3-colporate
 Endonema
b
  • Bracteoles 2 to each flower
  • Flowers in compact, terminal clusters
  • Pollen grains mostly 5-colporate
 Glischrocolla
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  • Style with 4 prominent wings
  • Pollen grains 4- or sometimes 5-colporate
 Penaea
b
  • Style terete or with 4 or 8 angles or ridges
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  • Pollen sacs usually only half as long as the connective body
  • Perianth in flowering stage usually pale yellow often turning reddish with age
  • Pollen grains 4- or 5-colporate
 Stylapterus
b
  • Pollen sacs more than half as long as the connective body
  • Perianth in all stages rose, purple, or dark red
  • Pollen grains mostly 3-colporate
 002
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  • Bracts and bracteoles with entire, even margins without apical gland
  • Bracts narrower than the vegetative leaves
 Brachysiphon
b
  • Bracts and bracteoles with margins partly denticulate to fimbriate, generally with apical gland
  • Outer bracts broader than the vegetative leaves
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  • Free part of filaments very short
  • Locule each 2-ovulate
  • Vegetative leaves with apical gland
 Sonderothamnus
b
  • Free part of filaments as long as the connective, rather flat
  • Locules each 4-ovulate
  • Vegetative leaves often without apical gland
 Saltera

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