e-Key v3 - Key to Ranunculaceae 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
  • Carpels with feathery tails
 002
b
  • Leaves alternate, often radical
  • Carpels mostly ending in a beak
 002
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  • Twining or scrambling plants, becoming woody with age
  • Sepals valvate
 Clematis
b
  • Erect subshrubs
  • Sepals ± imbricate
 Clematopsis
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  • True petals present, clearly different from sepals, usually with nectaries
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b
  • True petals absent
  • Sepals/tepals all ± similar, without nectaries
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  • Leaves entire, all radical
  • Small herbs 20-50 mm high
  • Carpels crowded on a spadix-like axis
 Myosurus
b
  • Leaves variously divided and/or margins not entire
  • Herbs higher or with stems longer than 100 mm
  • Carpels in clusters
 Ranunculus
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  • Inflorescence 1-3-flowered
  • Flowering stems mostly with 1 or more whorls of partially united leaves
 Anemone
b
  • Inflorescence usually with more than 3 flowers
  • Flowering stems without whorls of partially united leaves
 002
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  • Inflorescence pseudo-umbellate
  • Carpels many, developing into drupelets
 Knowltonia
b
  • Inflorescence pseudopaniculate
  • Carpels 1-several, developing into achenes
 Thalictrum

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