e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706778397869_20248363441781847" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Verben<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706778397869_0500204699697302" 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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  • Flowers in branched racemes
  • Calyx shrunk over fruit
  • Ovary 8-locular
  • Fruit of 4 pyrenes, each 2-locular and 2-seeded
 *Duranta
b
  • Flowers in spike-like inflorescences
  • Ovary 2- or 4-locular and fruit various
 002
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  • Ovary 4-locular
  • Fruit with 2 or 4 pyrenes
 002
b
  • Ovary 2-locular
  • Fruit with (1)2 pyrenes
 002
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  • Calyx hardly accrescent
  • Pyrenes 4, each 1-seeded
 *Verbena
b
  • Calyx accrescent in fruit
  • Pyrenes 2, each 2-seeded
 Priva
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  • Rachis of inflorescence thickened with a depression for each flower
  • Fertile stamens 2
 *Stachytarpheta
b
  • Rachis of inflorescence terete, without depressions
  • Fertile stamens 4
 002
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  • Calyx with a conspicuous tube
 Chascanum
b
  • Calyx very small and inconspicuous
 002
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  • Fruit fleshy, drupaceous, in obvious, small clusters
  • Calyx truncate or shallowly toothed
  • Corolla 4- or 5-lobed
 Lantana
b
  • Fruit dry and hard
  • Calyx 2-4-fid or conspicuously toothed
  • Corolla 4-lobed
 002
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  • Shrubs, subshrubs or perennial herbs, usually pyrophytes
 Lippia
b
  • Prostrate herbs, rooting at the nodes
 Phyla

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