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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 simple
  • Mainly shrubs and undershrubs, unarmed, often aromatic, often ericoid, rarely trees (Calodendrum)
 002
b
  • Leaves compound, pinnate or (1)3-5-foliolate
  • Mainly trees or large shrubs
 002
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  • Flowers bisexual
 002
b
  • Flowers unisexual
  • Plants polygamous or dioecious
 002
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  • Sepals and petals 4
  • Stamens (4)8
 Thamnosma
b
  • Sepals and petals 5
  • Stamens 5, sometimes staminodes present
 002
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  • Tree with large flowers in open panicles
  • Leaves comparatively large
 Calodendrum
b
  • Shrubs, often ericoid and aromatic
 002
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  • Style ± as long as petals, exceeding claw (if present)
  • Flowers terminal, in clusters and/or axils of leaves
 002
b
  • Style much shorter than petals, not exceeding claw (if present)
  • Flowers solitary, or few, or terminal, in reduced racemes, never in dense heads or clusters
 002
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  • Staminodes present in a variety of shapes
 Agathosma
b
  • Staminodes absent or vestigial
 002
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  • Ovary with 3 (rarely 2 or 4) carpels
 Macrostylis
b
  • Ovary with 5 carpels
 Phyllosma
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  • Petals transversely bearded at the throat
 Euchaetis
b
  • Petals pubescent or glabrous at the throat
 002
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  • Staminodes situated in groove in petal, connate below (except in Coleonema nubigenum)
 Coleonema
b
  • Staminodes free from petals, or absent
 002
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  • Anthers with stipitate apical gland
 Adenandra
b
  • Anthers with sessile or immersed apical gland
 002
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  • Anthers and ovary hairy
 Sheilanthera
b
  • Anthers glabrous and ovary glabrous or with a few spiky hairs or with stalked glands
 002
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  • Disc spreading-crenulate
  • Staminodes absent or vestigial
 Diosma
b
  • Disc obvallate
  • Staminodes of simple shapes present
 Acmadenia
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  • Petals 0
 Empleurum
b
  • Petals 4 or 5
 Teclea
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  • Shrubs or undershrubs, ericoid, aromatic
  • Stamens 8
 Thamnosma
b
  • Trees or large shrubs
  • Stamens 4, 5, 8 or 10
 002
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  • Leaves (1)3(5)-foliolate
 002
b
  • Leaves pinnate
 002
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  • Carpels (2)4, united at base only, but sometimes cohering above
 Oricia
b
  • Carpels 1-7, united for full length
 002
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  • Scrambling shrubs, armed with prickles
  • Flowers 5-merous
  • Fruit 5-7-seeded
 Toddalia
b
  • Trees or shrubs, unarmed
  • Flowers 4(5)-merous
  • Fruit 1-4-seeded
 002
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  • Stamens 4 or 5
  • Ovary 1-locular
  • Style short
  • Stigma peltate
 Teclea
b
  • Stamens (6 or 7)8
  • Ovary 2-4-locular
 002
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  • Ovary smooth
  • Style short
  • Stigma peltate
 Vepris
b
  • Ovary verrucose
  • Style 0
  • Stigma 4-lobed
 Toddaliopsis
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  • Flowers unisexual
  • Stamens 4
  • Fruit a globose capsule
  • Shrubs or trees, armed with spines
 Zanthoxylum
b
  • Flowers bisexual
  • Stamens 8 or 10
  • Fruit baccate
  • Shrubs or trees, armed or unarmed
 002
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  • Branches unarmed
  • Leaf rachis not winged
 Clausena
b
  • Branches armed with straight, axillary spines
  • Leaf rachis winged
 Citropsis

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