The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
Ovary 3-4-celled with numerous ovules in each cell. Styles 3-4. Stamens
3-8. Fruit a capsule or a schizocarp. Leaves undivided, stipulate.
_Myrothamnus_, =99. Myrothamnaceae=.
69. (54.) Ovary superior or nearly so. 70
Ovary inferior to half-inferior. 153
70. Ovary 1, entire or lobed. 71
Ovaries 2 or more, distinct or united at the base only. 146
71. Ovary 1-celled, sometimes incompletely chambered. 72
Ovary completely or almost completely 2-or more-celled. 118
72. Ovule 1. 73
Ovules 2 or more. 103
73. Ovule erect or ascending or attached by a basal funicle. 74
Ovule pendulous or descending. 94
74. Ovule straight. 75
Ovule incurved or inverted. 80
75. Style 1 or none; stigma solitary or stigmas 2 or more, contiguous
at the base. Stamens 1-12. 76
Styles 2-4, free or united at the base; stigmas not contiguous at the
base. Stamens 4-50. 79
76. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Stigma sessile, 2-lobed.
Seed with fleshy albumen. Shrubs or trees. Leaves without stipules.
_Exocarpus_, =56. Santalaceae=.
Flowers unisexual, rarely polygamous, but then herbs and stigma
penicillate. 77
77. Leaves exstipulate. Stamens 2-12. Stigmas 2. Seed without albumen.
_Myrica_, =48. Myricaceae=.
Leaves stipulate, rarely exstipulate, but then stigma 1. Stamens 1-5. 78
78. Stamens straight in bud. Juice milky. Trees. =53. Moraceae.=
Stamens incurved in bud. Juice not milky. =54. Urticaceae.=
79. Leaves simple, entire toothed lobed or cleft, with a stem-clasping
sheath at the base. Seed with copious mealy albumen. =66. Polygonaceae.=
Leaves compound, exstipulate. Stamens 5. Seed without albumen.
_Pistacia_, =127. Anacardiaceae=.
80. (74.) Ovule incurved. Embryo distinctly curved; albumen usually
mealy. 81
Ovule inverted. Embryo straight or nearly so; albumen usually fleshy or
wanting. 87
81. Perianth-segments 6, petal-like, free. Stamens 8-10. Style
3-4-cleft. Flowers dioecious. Spiny trees. _Didierea_, =134.
Sapindaceae=.
Perianth-segments 1-5. 82
82. Perianth with valvate and folded aestivation, lobed, enlarged in
fruit. Stamens hypogynous, united at the base. =69. Nyctaginaceae.=
Perianth with imbricate or open aestivation, rarely with valvate not
folded aestivation; in the latter case deeply divided. 83
83. Stamens 1-10, perigynous, rarely (_Queria_) 10, hypogynous.
Stipules present, rarely absent, and then leaves opposite and styles
2-3. =75. Caryophyllaceae.=
Stamens 1-5, hypogynous or nearly so, rarely distinctly perigynous, but
then stipules wanting and leaves alternate or style 1. 84
84. Stamens as many as the perianth-segments or one less (3-5),
alternating with them, hypogynous. Flowers hermaphrodite. 85
Stamens as many as the perianth-segments or one less, but opposite
to them, or considerably fewer, or in greater number. Leaves without
stipules. 86
85. Flowers in cymes, 5-merous. Perianth membranous. Embryo hooked.
Leaves whorled, usually stipulate. _Adenogramma_, =72. Aizoaceae=.
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