e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706777543317_8143409058574078" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Tili<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706777543317_7503573794255283" 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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  • Fruit a somewhat fleshy to dry, (1)2-4-lobed drupe
 Grewia
b
  • Fruit a glabrous, hairy or densely bristly capsule
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  • Flowers white, pinkish or mauve, 4-merous
  • Some stamens sterile with no anthers or, if sterile stamens very few or apparently absent, the filaments nodose
 Sparrmannia
b
  • Flowers yellow, 5-merous, sometimes 4-merous but then capsule pod-like
  • All the stamens fertile, filaments never nodose
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  • Fruits globose, bristly, spiny or with conical, spine-tipped tubercles
  • Ovules 2 per locule
 Triumfetta
b
  • Fruits usually long and pod-like, rarely ellipsoid or ovoid
  • Ovules more than 2 per locule or, if only 2, then capsule smooth
  • Leaves often tailed at the base
 Corchorus

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