e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706703768196_4784113956457876" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Rhamn<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706703768196_7212601201644373" 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
  • Stipules interpetiolar
 Lasiodiscus
b
  • Leaves alternate, approximate, sometimes opposite, but then stipules not interpetiolar
 002
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  • Climbers with tendrils
 Helinus
b
  • Small trees, shrubs, or undershrubs
 002
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  • Fruit a fleshy or dry drupe
 002
b
  • Fruit a capsule
 002
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  • Leaves alternate
 002
b
  • Leaves opposite or approximate in pairs
 002
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  • Leaves palmately veined
 Ziziphus
b
  • Leaves pinnately veined
 002
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  • Leaves with entire or remotely toothed margins
 Berchemia
b
  • Leaves finely toothed
 Rhamnus
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  • Inflorescence a short, axillary umbel
  • Spines usually present
 Scutia
b
  • Inflorescence an axillary raceme or cyme
  • Spines absent
 Rhamnus
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  • Disc inconspicuous
  • Flowers in lax, terminal and axillary panicles
 Noltea
b
  • Disc evident
  • Flowers solitary, in cymes or racemes, spikes or heads
 002
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  • Flowers in racemes, spikes or heads, rarely solitary
  • Style simple
 Phylica
b
  • Flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered peduncled cymes
  • Style 3-partite
 002
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  • Leaf lamina 40-100 mm long, ± crenate, elliptic to elliptic-ovate
 Colubrina
b
  • Leaf lamina 15 mm long, entire, ± ovate-cordate
 Helinus

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