e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706536985961_5981049757838799" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Anacardi<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706536985962_42310822329354547" 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 compound, trifoliolate, or variably imparipinnate
b
  • Leaves simple
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  • Leaves variably imparipinnate
b
  • Leaves nearly always trifoliolate
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  • Ovary 2-4-locular
  • Fruit large, fleshy, with prominent stone, brown
b
  • Ovary 1(2)-locular
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  • Fruit fleshy
b
  • Fruit dry
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  • Stamens 8
  • Leaflets straight, sessile or petiolulate
b
  • Stamens 7-10
  • Leaflets falcately narrowly ovate, subsessile
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  • Fruit somewhat flattened, with parchment-like covering and surrounded by enlarged, coloured calyx
  • Leaflets opposite
  • Rachis winged
b
  • Fruit small, dry, with reddish chartaceous exocarp
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  • Fruit a small, fleshy or dryish drupe
b
  • Fruit with membranous, winged pericarp
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  • Leaves opposite or nearly so, margin entire
  • Stamens 5, arising below disc
  • Styles 3, connate at base
b
  • Leaves alternate
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  • Leaves with serrate margin
  • Ovary 1-locular
  • Style lateral with minutely 2-lobed stigma
  • Fruit compressed, narrowly winged
b
  • Leaves with entire margin
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  • Style and stigma 1
  • Male flowers with 1(2) fertile stamens
b
  • Styles and stigmas 3
  • Male flowers with all stamens normal
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  • Pedicel and receptacle swollen and fleshy in fruit, finally larger than compressed fruit
  • Fruit not fleshy
b
  • Pedicel and receptacle not fleshy
  • Drupe large, ovoid or subglobose, pulpy
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  • Ovary asymmetrical, narrowed into a neck below styles
  • Styles united towards base
b
  • Ovary symmetrical
  • Styles free or nearly so, without columnar base