e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1702889568931_3211615150453866" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Sterculi<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1702889568931_999682420338923" 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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  • Petals absent
  • Flowers unisexual or sometimes bisexual
  • Mainly trees
 002
b
  • Petals present
  • Flowers bisexual
  • Mostly perennial herbs, shrublets, or undershrubs, sometimes shrubs or small trees
 002
Backtrack a
  • Stamens many, with anthers capitate on apex of staminal column
 Sterculia
b
  • Stamens 10(12), with anthers in a regular or wavy whorl around apex of staminal column
 Cola
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  • Staminodes conspicuous
 002
b
  • Staminodes 0 or inconspicuous
 002
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  • Fibrous herbs or undershrubs
  • Petals becoming detached, persisting like a cap on the ovary
  • 5 fertile stamens
 Melhania
b
  • Shrubs or small trees
  • Petals becoming papery, persistent
  • 10-15 fertile stamens
 Dombeya
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  • Ovary 1-locular
 Waltheria
b
  • Ovary 5-locular
 002
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  • Locules 2-ovulate
  • Filaments ± connate into a tube
  • Anthers oblong-elliptic, glabrous
 Melochia
b
  • Locules 3-many-ovulate
  • Filaments free or slightly connate at the base, ± obovate or tuberculate-cruciform
  • Anthers tapering to an acuminate apex, pubescent, pilose or ciliolate
 Hermannia

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