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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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  • Leaves compound, rarely 1-foliolate
 002
b
  • Leaves simple, sometimes 1-foliolate
 002
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  • Leaves imparipinnate or biternate or (1-)3-foliolate
 002
b
  • Leaves 1- or 2-paripinnate
 002
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  • Herbaceous or woody, scandent with tendrils
 002
b
  • Trees or shrubs, without tendrils
 002
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  • Leaves biternate or biternately compound
  • Fruit a bladder-like capsule
 Cardiospermum
b
  • Leaves imparipinnate
  • Fruit an obconic, 3-valved capsule
 Paullinia
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  • Leaves (1-)3-foliolate
  • Ovary 2-locular, with a single, basal ovule in each locule
  • Fruit drupaceous
 Allophylus
b
  • Leaves imparipinnate, with 5-12 pairs of leaflets
  • Ovary 3-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule
 Erythrophysa
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  • Petals well developed
 002
b
  • Petals rudimentary or absent
 002
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  • Fruit loculicidally dehiscent, 3-locular
  • Calyx somewhat united
 Blighia
b
  • Fruit indehiscent
 002
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  • Fruit composed of 2 or 3 broadly winged cocci
  • Stamens 8
 Atalaya
b
  • Fruit drupaceous or baccate, cocci not winged
 002
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  • Sepals free or almost so
  • Stamens (6-)8(-more)
 002
b
  • Sepals connate to form a saucer-shaped or campanulate tube
 002
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  • Fruit globose, obscurely 3-lobed
  • Leaf rachis ± winged
 Hippobromus
b
  • Fruit conspicuously lobed
 002
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  • Flowers unisexual
  • Stamens (8-)12-20
 Deinbollia
b
  • Flowers bisexual
  • Stamens 6-10
 Smelophyllum
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  • Sepals forming a campanulate tube
  • Petals 3 or 4, each with a 2-lobed, basal scale
 Pancovia
b
  • Sepals forming a saucer at base
  • Petals 5, each with a thick appendage longer than itself
 Smelophyllum
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  • Fruit 1-locular (by abortion), indehiscent or tardily so
  • Stamens 5 or 6
  • Leaflets 4-14 pairs per leaf
 Haplocoelum
b
  • Fruit of (1)2 or 3 dorsally longitudinally dehiscent cocci
  • Stamens 6-8
  • Leaflets 2 or 3 pairs per leaf
 Stadmannia
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  • Leaves 1-foliolate
  • Sepals 4
  • Petals 4 or 0
  • Ovary 2-locular, with a single, basal ovule in each locule
 Allophylus
b
  • Leaves simple
 002
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  • Petals (4)5(6)
  • Ovary 2- or 3-locular, with a single ovule in each locule
  • Fruit globose
 Pappea
b
  • Petals 0
  • Ovary 2-6-locular, with 2 axile ovules in each locule
  • Fruit angled or winged
  • Young leaves sticky
 Dodonaea

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