e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1699263178473_23868928792927302" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Menisperm<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1699263178473_2601430749709126" 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.
Backtrack a
  • Carpel 1
  • Filaments united into a column or suppressed
 002
b
  • Carpels 3(6) or 4-12(-30)
  • Filaments free or variously connate, rarely (in Albertisia) forming a column
 002
Backtrack a
  • Leaves clearly peltate
 Stephania
b
  • Leaves not peltate to subpeltate
 002
Backtrack a
  • Lianas
  • Sepal usually 1 in female flower
 Cissampelos
b
  • Erect subshrubs, spiny
  • Sepals always 2 in female flowers
 Antizoma
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  • Carpels 3 or 6
  • Sepals and petals 6
  • Filaments free or partly connate
 002
b
  • Carpels 4-12(-30)
  • Sepals 6-12
  • Petals 3, 6 or 0
  • Filaments at least partly connate
 002
Backtrack a
  • Anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits
  • Stems brittle
  • Filaments sometimes partly connate
 Tinospora
b
  • Anthers with transverse dehiscence
  • Stems not brittle
  • Filaments free
 Cocculus
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  • Inner sepals connate
  • Filaments connate into a solid column, with synandrium 15-30-locular
  • Condyle 0
 Albertisia
b
  • Inner sepals free
  • Filaments 3 or 6, connate to ± the middle
  • Condyle narrowly obovate
 Tiliacora

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