e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706777786825_6526648438930349" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Turner<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706777786826_096424367247949" 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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  • Shrubs up to 2 m tall with axillary
  • Flowers solitary
  • Petals orange or yellow with a dark brown or purplish black claw
  • Pedicels fused to petiole
 Turnera
b
  • Annuals or chamaephytes, 100-600 mm tall
  • Flowers in axillary inflorescences or solitary
  • Petals orange-red to pale yellow, claw not dark-coloured
  • Pedicels free
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  • Flowers on long racemes
  • Capsule resembling a siliqua of the Brassicaceae, long, thin, terete, rostrate
  • Seeds straight, cylindrical
 Tricliceras
b
  • Flowers solitary or in short, few-flowered racemes
  • Capsule ovoid
  • Seeds curved
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  • Calyx long-tubular
  • Petals not clawed
  • Capsule erect, narrowly ovoid, beaked, thin-walled
  • Leaves without 1 or 2 pairs of sessile glands below
 Streptopetalum
b
  • Calyx: sepals fused in lower third, forming a cup
  • Petals clawed, alternating with sepals
  • Capsule recurved, ovoid, woody
  • Leaves with 1 or several pairs of round sessile glands below on lower half of leaf
 Piriqueta

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