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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 small, broadly ovate, hard, glabrous, densely imbricate, in 4 rows
 Rhigiophyllum
b
  • Leaves not as above
 002
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  • Stamens arising high in corolla tube
  • Ovules rarely more than 6
 Siphocodon
b
  • Stamens free from corolla or arising on lower portion of tube
 002
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  • Ovary 1-locular or incompletely 2-locular, with 4 basal ovules
  • Stamens free
  • Corolla with long slender tube
 Merciera
b
  • Ovary 2-5(6-10)-locular
  • Ovules many
 002
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  • Capsule indehiscent, tardily opening by the irregular decomposition of the pericarp between the persistent lateral nerves
  • Annuals
 Gunillaea
b
  • Capsule dehiscent
  • Annuals or perennials
 002
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  • Capsule dehiscing septicidally by 3 longitudinal splits
 Namacodon
b
  • Capsule dehiscing not as above
 002
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  • Capsule bursting at apex or opening by a terminal pore or lid
 002
b
  • Capsule opening regularly by terminal valves
 002
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  • Ovary 3(2)-locular
  • Capsule campanulate, opening by terminal cap, walls breaking down in fruit
  • Small prostrate perennial herbs, often mat-forming
 Craterocapsa
b
  • Ovary 2-locular
  • Capsule cylindric or barrel-shaped, opening by a terminal pore or bursting irregularly
  • Shrubs or shrublets
 002
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  • Inflorescence 1-few-flowered, closely subtended by leaves
 Roella
b
  • Inflorescence usually pedunculate
  • Capsule elongate, at length splitting nearly to base into 5 segments
 Prismatocarpus
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  • Corolla campanulate or funnel-shaped
 Wahlenbergia
b
  • Corolla cylindric
 002
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  • Ovary 2-locular, subglobose, hairy
  • Stamens 5, free from corolla tube, included
  • Stigma 2-lobed
 Treichelia
b
  • Ovary 3-5-locular
 002
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  • Ovary 5-locular
  • Stigma 5-lobed
 Microcodon
b
  • Ovary 3(4)-locular
  • Stigma club-shaped, with 3 glandular lobes
 Theilera

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