e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1701435884180_7764037522676486" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Flacourti<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1701435884180_817859696309978" 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 opposite
 Pseudoscolopia
b
  • Leaves alternate
 002
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  • Petals with a fleshy gland on the inner face or staminodes petaloid with fleshy glands
 002
b
  • Petals or petaloid staminodes without fleshy glands
  • Petals sometimes 0
 002
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  • Stamens numerous
  • Petals spirally arranged
 Rawsonia
b
  • Stamens 10-12
  • Petals whorled
 Kiggelaria
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  • Petals present
 002
b
  • Petals 0
 002
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  • Petals more than sepals
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b
  • Petals as many as sepals
 002
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  • Branches spiny
  • Fruit globose, indehiscent
 Oncoba
b
  • Branches without spines
  • Fruit ovoid, beaked, dehiscing into 4-8 valves
 Xylotheca
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  • Stamens numerous, not collected in bundles opposite petals
  • Fruit a berry
 Scolopia
b
  • Stamens equal in number to petals or in bundles opposite petals
  • Fruit usually a capsule
 002
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  • Leaves with 5-9 nerves from base
  • Flowers unisexual
  • Seeds with a red aril
 Trimeria
b
  • Leaves penninerved
  • Flowers bisexual
  • Seeds without an aril
 002
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  • Style simple with a capitate or minutely bilobed stigma
  • Flowers in pedunculate cymes
  • Stipules deltoid
 Gerrardina
b
  • Styles 2-6 or 2-6-cleft
  • Flowers in racemes or panicles
  • Stipules 0 or large and orbicular or reniform
 Homalium
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  • Leaves with linear or circular pellucid glands
 Casearia
b
  • Leaves without pellucid glands
 002
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  • Stamens in bundles of 3-10 alternating with disc glands
 Trimeria
b
  • Stamens not in bundles
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  • Flowers bisexual
  • Style very short
  • Stigma peltate
  • Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate
 Aphloia
b
  • Flowers unisexual or more rarely bisexual
  • Styles 2-8
  • Leaves elliptic to obovate or orbicular
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  • Stamens surrounded by a ring of disc glands
  • Ovary incompletely 4-8-locular with 2 ovules per locule, one above the other
 Flacourtia
b
  • Stamens intermingled with disc glands and alternating with them
  • Ovules 1-6 per placenta
 Dovyalis

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