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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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  • Flowers paired in axil of a bract
  • Ovules 2
 002
b
  • Flowers solitary in axil of a bract
  • Ovule 1
 002
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  • Leaves in whorls
 Brabejum
b
  • Leaves alternate
 002
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  • Leaves usually terete, if flattened, then both surfaces similar
  • Mature follicles hard and woody
 *Hakea
b
  • Leaves pinnately or bipinnately divided, upper and lower surfaces different
  • Follicles thin to coriaceous
 *Grevillea
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  • Flowers unisexual
 002
b
  • Flowers bisexual
 002
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  • Female flowers in cones formed by woody, imbricate bracts
  • Male flowers sessile in densely congested, globose or conic inflorescences, rarely spicate
 Leucadendron
b
  • Female flowers in densely involucrate, foliaceous heads, arranged racemosely on a central cone of tissue
  • Male flowers in lax racemes, pedicellate
 Aulax
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  • Leaves pinnately or bipinnately divided, or at least divided at some stage
  • Leaflets usually terete or subterete
 002
b
  • Leaves entire, or with apical teeth
 002
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  • Inflorescence globose or cylindric
  • Flowers arranged in sessile groups of 4, each flower subtended by a floral bract that becomes woody in the post-pollination phase
 Paranomus
b
  • Inflorescence a panicle, a capitulum or a panicle of capitula
  • Floral bracts not enlarging in post-pollination phase
 Serruria
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  • Inflorescence a panicle, raceme or lax spike
 002
b
  • Inflorescence a 3-many-flowered capitulum
  • Capitula terminal and solitary, or axillary and often many towards apex of a flowering shoot, or a terminal panicle of capitula
 002
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  • Broad-leaved trees
  • Inflorescence a lax terminal spike
 Faurea
b
  • Terete-leaved shrubs
  • Inflorescence a panicle, raceme or condensed raceme
 002
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  • Inflorescence a panicle
  • Flowers regular, straight in bud
 Sorocephalus
b
  • Inflorescence a raceme or condensed raceme
  • Flowers irregular or at least abaxially curved in bud
 Spatalla
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  • Capitula solitary and terminal or a terminal panicle of capitula
 002
b
  • Capitula axillary
 002
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  • Capitula surrounded by large, highly coloured, involucral bracts
  • Perianth separated to base into two parts, an adaxial sheath of 3 fused perianth segments and a free abaxial perianth segment
 Protea
b
  • Capitula surrounded by small, insignificant, green, white or pink involucral bracts
  • Perianth fused into a distinct tube at base
 002
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  • Leaves terete, acicular
 002
b
  • Leaves flat
 002
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  • Perianth limbs glabrous
 Diastella
b
  • Perianth limbs pubescent
 Sorocephalus
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  • Perianth segments free to base, perianth tube 0
  • Hypogynous scales usually 0
 Diastella
b
  • Perianth segments fused to form a distinct tube 3-8 mm long
  • Hypogynous scales present
 Vexatorella
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  • Involucral bracts large, conspicuous, usually brightly coloured, but occasionally brown
 002
b
  • Involucral bracts small, green or brown, cartilaginous, papyraceous or woody, not brightly coloured
 002
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  • Perianth separating to base into 2 parts, an adaxial sheath of 3 fused perianth segments and a free, abaxial segment
 Protea
b
  • Perianth fused into a tube at base
 002
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  • Capitula sessile
 Mimetes
b
  • Capitula pedunculate
 Orothamnus
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  • Capitula usually pedunculate or narrowed to a peduncular region, globose or ovoid with more than 15 flowers per capitulum
 Leucospermum
b
  • Capitula sessile, massed among upper leaves on shoot and partly hidden by them, with 3-15 flowers per capitulum
 Mimetes

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