e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1699355550047_49211522707255484" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Crassul<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1699355550047_8505056888628668" 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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  • Leaves spirally arranged, often in dense clusters
  • Flowers in a thyrse with monochasia, often single-flowered or spike-like
b
  • Leaves opposite or in whorls, at least on vegetative branches
  • Inflorescence a thyrse with dichasia ending in monochasia, rarely with a single, terminal or axillary flower (Cotyledon woodii)
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  • Leaves soft, herbaceous, seasonal
  • Inflorescence a single-flowered to branched thyrse
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  • Leaves usually tough, perennial
  • Inflorescence a spike-like thyrse, rarely branched
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  • Leaves opposite, ± fused to one another
  • Stamens as many as calyx lobes
b
  • Leaves opposite or spirally arranged, ± free
  • Stamens twice as many as calyx lobes
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  • Flowers 5-merous
b
  • Flowers 4-merous
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  • Flowers erect
  • Filaments fused to corolla tube at or above middle
b
  • Flowers pendulous
  • Filaments fused to corolla tube in lower third