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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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  • Leaf apex attenuated into a recurved tendril, or aristate
  • Leaves cauline, alternate on usually scandent annual stems, herbaceous or leathery
  • Flowers solitary, with a leaf placed beside them, or unattended
 002
b
  • Leaf apex not cirrhiferous
  • Leaves basal, rosulate or distichous
  • Flowers variously arranged
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  • Perianth segments fused
  • Tube campanulate
 Sandersonia
b
  • Perianth segments free
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  • Perianth segments recurved
  • Style at right angles to ovary
 Gloriosa
b
  • Perianth segments not recurved
  • Style straight
 Littonia
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  • Flowers ebracteate, at least upper ones
  • Styles 3(4)
 002
b
  • Flowers bracteate
  • Styles 3 or 1
 002
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  • Perianth segments fused basally
 Wurmbea
b
  • Perianth segments free
 002
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  • Perianth pedicellate
  • Segments clawed
  • Basal nectaries absent
 Baeometra
b
  • Perianth sessile
  • Segments expanded at base with nectaries
 002
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  • Styles arising centrally on ovary
 Onixotis
b
  • Styles arising laterally on truncate ovary lobes
 Neodregea
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  • Flowers in a capitulum overtopped by exterior green or petaloid bracts
 Androcymbium
b
  • Flowers not in a capitulum
 002
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  • Flowers 2-6, in a spreading apical umbel, on long pedicels
  • Perianth segments with a short basal spur
 Hexacyrtis
b
  • Flowers solitary or cymose (with bracts placed opposite flowers)
 002
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  • Perianth persistent
  • Ovary with 3 long, spreading styles
 Ornithoglossum
b
  • Perianth caducous
  • Ovary with a short or long style
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  • Filaments filiform
  • Style very short
  • Stigmas 3, revolute, papillate
 Iphigenia
b
  • Filaments with a thick bulge in middle
  • Style long
  • Stigma terminal
 Camptorrhiza

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