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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 fan-shaped
  • Fruit globose, hard, more than 30 mm in diameter
 002
b
  • Leaves pinnate
  • Fruit fleshy (date-like), scaly, or hard and smooth, ± 30 mm in diameter
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  • Leaves costapalmate (petiole extending into a short acute rachis)
  • Fruit 1-seeded, shortly stalked
  • Inflorescence freely branched
  • Male flowers 1 or 2 in grooves of terete spadices
 Hyphaene
b
  • Leaves palmate (petiole truncate at apex)
  • Fruit 3-seeded, sessile
  • Spikes simple, short
  • Male flowers many, in grooves of stout spadices
 *Borassus
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  • Plants dioecious
  • Fruit fleshy, date-like
  • Lower leaf pinnae modified into spines
 Phoenix
b
  • Plants monoecious
  • Lower pinnae not modified into spines
 002
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  • Fruit ovoid, covered with rhomboid, shiny, brown scales
  • Inflorescence apical
  • Plant monocarpic
 Raphia
b
  • Fruit globose, hard, apiculate, ± 30 mm in diameter
  • Inflorescence axillary
  • Plants polycarpic
 Jubaeopsis

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