=Ficoidaceæ=
cc) Leaves alternate or radical or reduced to scales:
d) Leaves stipulate:
e) Stamens monadelphous, usually numerous; calyx valvate:
f) Flowers usually hermaphrodite; hairs usually stellate.
=Sterculiaceæ=
ff) Flowers always unisexual; hairs often simple.
=Euphorbiaceæ=
ee) Stamens free or shortly connate only at the base:
f) Stamens the same number as the sepals and alternate with them.
=Rhamnaceæ=
ff) Stamens the same number as the sepals and opposite to them, or
more numerous or fewer:
g) Stipules ochreate, _i.e._, sheathing and more or less
membranous around the stem; fruit a small nut.
=Polygonaceæ=
gg) Stipules not ochreate:
h) Flowers hermaphrodite; stipules sheathing, sometimes adnate
to the petiole:
i) Leaves digitately lobed; stems herbaceous creeping.
=Rosaceæ=
ii) Leaves not digitate; erect or diffuse herbs.
=Molluginaceæ=
hh) Flowers unisexual; stems not creeping:
i) Ovary 3-celled, composed of 3 carpels; fruit a capsule.
=Euphorbiaceæ=
ii) Ovary 1-celled, composed of 1 carpel, fruit not a capsule.
=Moraceæ=
dd) Leaves exstipulate:
e) Leaves ternately compound; herbs; ovary composed of 1 carpel,
long-stipitate in fruit; flowers paniculate or racemose, very
small.
=Ranunculaceæ=
ee) Leaves compound; trees and shrubs:
f) Cultivated trees with milky latex; fruit a capsule, with
pendulous seeds; flowers unisexual; leaves digitate.
=Euphorbiaceæ=
ff) Indigenous trees or shrub; latex not milky; leaves pinnate.
=Sapindaceæ=
eee) Leaves simple:
f) Stamens circinnately involute in bud; calyx tube often rather
long; ovary 1-celled; ovule 1, basal.
=Nyctaginaceæ=
ff) Stamens sometimes inflexed but not circinnate in bud:
g) Stamens more or less connate into a central column; ovule
erect; seeds with ruminate endosperm.
=Myristicaceæ=
gg) Stamens free or the filaments shortly connate only at the
base:
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