e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706515539528_8424516139295486" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Commelin<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706515539528_9882542961458449" 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.
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  • Fertile stamens 6, filaments bearded
  • Flowers mostly regular (tribe Tradescantieae)
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b
  • Fertile stamens 3, if 6(5), then filaments glabrous
  • Staminodes 3(4)
  • Flowers irregular to regular (tribe Commelineae)
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  • Inflorescence axillary, perforating base of leaf sheath
 Coleotrype
b
  • Inflorescence terminal or terminal and axillary, never perforating leaf sheath
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  • Petals white, free
  • Cymes regularly paired
 *Tradescantia
b
  • Petals pink or purple to violet, united basally into a tube
  • Cymes usually not paired
 Cyanotis
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  • Inflorescence consisting of 1 or 2 cymes enclosed in or closely subtended by folded or obliquely funnel-shaped leafy spathe
  • Staminodes typically with 4(-6)-lobed anthers
 Commelina
b
  • Inflorescence not enclosed in spathe, consisting of 1 to many cymes
  • Staminodes lacking or (if present) with 2- or 3-lobed anthers
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  • Capsules 3-valved
  • Fertile stamens 2 or 3
  • Filaments bearded
 Murdannia
b
  • Capsules 2-valved
  • Fertile stamens 3 or 6(5)
  • All filaments glabrous or 2 bearded
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  • Fertile stamens 6(5)
  • Ovary and capsule glabrous
 Floscopa
b
  • Fertile stamens 3
  • Staminodes 3
  • Ovary and capsule puberulous
 Aneilema

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