e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706189218781_25474044540522867" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Asphodela<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706189218781_45045128318480643" data-jodit_selection_marker="end" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>ceae 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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  • Perianth stellate to campanulate, segments free
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  • Perianth tubular, usually with short, erect or erecto-patent lobes, segments at least partly fused towards the base
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  • Filaments densely bearded
 Bulbine
b
  • Filaments glabrous or scabrid
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  • Leaves usually thickly leathery to somewhat succulent
  • Flowers white, rarely yellow, pink or mauve, segments usually dark-keeled, deciduous, cohering apically when wilted
 Trachyandra
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  • Leaves soft (mesophytic), somewhat succulent
  • Flowers yellow, orange, white or cream, segments without dark keel, persistent
 Bulbinella
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  • Leaves distinctly V-shaped in cross section (except Kniphofia northiae where only juvenile leaves show this trait), soft (mesophytic), not succulent (except K. typhoides), in basal rosettes, lacking spines, immaculate
  • Inflorescence usually a simple, dense raceme or spike
 Kniphofia
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  • Leaves cymbi- or crescentiform in cross section, ± succulent, in basal or apical rosettes or cauline, hard, often spiny and/or distinctly to indistinctly maculate with spots or tubercles
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  • Capsules apically acute
  • Leaves narrowly linear, margin with dense, small, retrorse teeth
  • Underground parts bulbous
  • Flowers usually <15 mm long, irregular
 Chortolirion
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  • Capsules apically rounded or obtuse
  • Leaves usually thickly succulent, deltoid to lanceolate, margin mostly variously armed with soft or pungent spines
  • Underground parts rhizomatous or stoloniferous (if rarely bulbous then flowers >15 mm long, regular)
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  • Perianth segments apically connivent
 Poellnitzia
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  • Perianth segments apically spreading or recurved
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  • Flowers pendulous at anthesis
  • Perianth tube curved upwards at apex
 Gasteria
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  • Flowers erect, suberect or spreading at anthesis
  • Perianth tube straight or curved downwards at apex
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  • Perianth bilabiate, <15 mm long, mouth declined
 Haworthia
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  • Perianth regular (if rarely weakly bilabiate then flowers >15 mm long), mouth upturned
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  • Flowers usually brightly coloured, fleshy
  • Stamens as long as or longer than the perianth
 Aloe
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  • Flowers dull-coloured, flimsy
  • Stamens included
 Astroloba

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