1467:(A)
previous:1383
Ovary 1-locular.
next:1468
1467:(B)
Ovary 2-20-locular.
next:1487
1468:(A)
previous:1467
Ovules 1-4.
next:1469
1468:(B)
Ovules 5 or more.
next:1479
1469:(A)
previous:1468
Plants woody, trees or shrubs or less frequently epiphytes or climbers.
next:1470
1469:(B)
Plants herbaceous or woody at base only, herbs or undershrubs, less frequently climbers or prostrate herbs or aquatic plants.
next:1476
1470:(A)
previous:1469
Flowers bisexual or polygamous.
next:1471
1470:(B)
Flowers unisexual.
next:1473
1471:(A)
previous:1470
Flowers bisexual. Ovules 2. Stamens 8 - 10, styles 2 - 6.
1471:(B)
Flowers polygamous. Ovule 1.
next:1472
1472:(A)
previous:1471
Non-resiniferous trees. Flowers in panicles or in globose capitules. Stamens 10. Style 2-fid. Fruit samara-like. Endosperm present. China, Tibet. (Camptotheca, also in Cornaceae)
1472:(B)
Resiniferous (very poisonous!) trees. Flowers in panicles. Stamens 5. Style 1 or 3-5. Fruit a drupe. Endosperm absent. Himalaya to Thailand. (Drimycarpus, Holigarna)
1473:(A)
previous:1470
Trees or shrubs without tendrils, stem not inflated.
next:1474
1473:(B)
Woody climbers with tendrils, or shrubs usually with tendrils, or stem inflated and tendrils absent.
1474:(A)
previous:1473
Flowers in racemes or panicles. Stamens 5. Styles 1 or 3-5. Ovule 1.
next:1475
1474:(B)
Flowers in catkins. Stamens 4. Styles 2. Ovules 2. Warm America. (also in Cornaceae)
1475:(A)
previous:1474
Resiniferous (very poisonous!) lofty trees. Flowers polygamous. Fruit a drupe. Endosperm absent. Himalaya to Thailand. (Drimycarpus, Holigarna)
1475:(B)
Non-resiniferous trees or shrubs. Flowers dioecious. Fruit a drupe or a berry. Endosperm present. Indo-China, W. Malesia (Aralidiaceae, also in Araliaceae), or New Zealand, S. America (Griseliniaceae)
Aralidiaceae Griseliniaceae
1476:(A)
previous:1469
Ovule 1.
next:1477
1476:(B)
Ovules 2 - 5.
next:1478
1477:(A)
previous:1476
Climbing or prostrate herbs, usually with tendrils. Endosperm absent.
1477:(B)
Herbs or undershrubs without tendrils. Endosperm present. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Styles 2.
1478:(A)
previous:1476
Plants usually climbing with tendrils or prostrate, rarely shrubs or erect herbs. Flowers unisexual, 3- or 5-merous. Fruit a berry or a nut. Endosperm absent. Styles 3.
1478:(B)
Erect herbs, or undershrubs, or prostrate, or aquatic. Flowers 2- or 4-merous, unisexual or bisexual. Fruit a drupe or a nut. Endosperm present.
1479:(A)
previous:1468
Placenta central. Herbs. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 2. Petals 4-6. Stamens 6 - 10. Style 3 - 8-fid. (Portulaca)
1479:(B)
Placenta parietal or apical.
next:1480
1480:(A)
previous:1479
Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual but then endosperm copious. Woody plants. Sepals and petals 4 or 5.
next:1481
1480:(B)
Flowers unisexual. Endosperm absent.
next:1486
1481:(A)
previous:1480
Stamens 8-10. Anthers extrorse. Styles 2-6. Placentas several, parietal.
1481:(B)
Stamens 4 or 5. Anthers introrse or latrorse.
next:1482
1482:(A)
previous:1481
Herbs.
next:1483
1482:(B)
Shrubs or trees.
next:1484
1483:(A)
previous:1482
Leaves opposite. Inflorescence cymose, flowers paired. Ovules apical, pendulous. (Vahliaceae)
Vahliaceae
1483:(B)
Leaves radical or alternate, rarely subopposite. Flowers solitary. Ovules parietal. Perennials or rarely annuals (Lepuropetalon) and then leaves succulent. (Parnassiaceae, Lepuropetalaceae)
Parnassiaceae Lepuropetalaceae
1484:(A)
previous:1482
Flowers epiphyllous, from the midrib of a leaf. (Dulongiaceae)
Dulongiaceae
1484:(B)
Flowers not epiphyllous.
next:1485
1485:(A)
previous:1484
Shrubs. Leaves lobed. Fruit a berry. ( Grossulariaceae)
Grossulariaceae
1485:(B)
Trees, rarely shrubs. Leaves entire or slightly serrate. Fruit a capsule.
1486:(A)
previous:1480
Plants usually climbing or prostrate, herbaceous, with tendrils, rarely erect or shrubby. Petals 3-6. Stamens 1-5. Styles usually 3. Fruit a berry or dry and indehiscent.
1486:(B)
Trees. Petals in the male flowers 6-8, absent in the female flowers. Stamens or styles 6-8. Fruit a capsule.
1487:(A)
previous:1467
Ovule 1 per locule.
next:1488
1487:(B)
Ovules 2 or more per locule.
next:1505
1488:(A)
previous:1487
Ovule ascending or patent.
next:1489
1488:(B)
Ovule pendulous.
next:1491
1489:(A)
previous:1488
Flowers unisexual. Stamens 3 or 5. Styles 3. Climbing or prostrate herbaceous plants, rarely undershrubs. Petals 5. Anthers extrorse. Ovule ascending. Endosperm absent.
1489:(B)
Flowers bisexual. Stamens 10, rarely less. Styles 2 -10.
next:1490
1490:(A)
previous:1489
Shrubs or trees. Ovule ascending. Fruit berry-like. (Pomoideae)
1490:(B)
Herbs, usually prostrate. Ovule patent. Fruit dry, composed of follicles, covered by the calyx. Mediterranean, India, S. Africa (Rosaceae-Neuradoideae)
1491:(A)
previous:1488
Woody plants. Sepals and petals 4, valvate. Endosperm absent. Ovary completely inferior. Styles 4. (Anisophyllaceae)
Anisophyllaceae
1491:(B)
Plants, if woody not with both sepals and petals valvate. Endosperm present.
next:1492
1492:(A)
previous:1491
Ovary irregularity 20-locular, apex with a hollow tubule, inside with 5 stigmatic lines and a central free column, which simulates a style. Trees or woody climbers. Leaves simple. Stipules minute. Flowers 5-merous. Petals imbricate. Stamens 5. S.E. Asia to N.E. Australia. (Siphonodontaceae)
Siphonodontaceae
1492:(B)
Ovary and style different.
next:1493
1493:(A)
previous:1492
Ovary hemi-1inferior. Undershrubs or shrublets.
next:1494
1493:(B)
Ovary inferior, rarely hemi-1inferior but then trees or tall shrubs and the corolla valvate or apert.
next:1495
1494:(A)
previous:1493
Stamens 12. Styles (3 or) 4 (or 5) (Philadelphaceae)
Philadelphaceae
1494:(B)
Stamens 5. Styles 2. Leaves small, undivided. Stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, in capitules, or in spikes, or in racemes, or in panicles. Fruit a nut. S. Africa. (Berzelia, Mniothamnea)
1495:(A)
previous:1493
Flowers 2-4-merous. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves simple. Ovule with a ventral raphe.
1495:(B)
Flowers 5-merous, rarely 3- or 4- or 6-merous or polymerous, but then shrubs or trees. Leaves simple or compound.
next:1496
1496:(A)
previous:1495
Shrubs or trees. Stipules present, free. Petals 4 or 5. Anthers with lateral valves, rarely with longitudinal slits, but then 4 stamens fertile and 4 stamens sterile. Flowers in spikes, or in racemes, or in capitules. Ovule with a ventral raphe.
1496:(B)
Stipules absent, or the sheath with stipular appendages, rarely stipules present and free, but then plants herbaceous.
next:1497
1497:(A)
previous:1496
Woody plants. Leaves simple. Petals imbricate, 4 or 5. Inflorescence a raceme or a panicle. Styles 2 or 3. Ovule with a dorsal raphe.
next:1498
1497:(B)
Petals valvate, when imbricate plants either herbaceous or woody with pinnately compound leaves, rarely simple and then deeply lobed or orbicular and then the pedicels distinctly jointed below the flowers.
next:1499
1498:(A)
previous:1497
Flowers dioecious. Anthers dorsifix. Indo-China, W. Malesia. (Aralidiaceae, also in Araliaceae)
Aralidiaceae
1498:(B)
Flowers bisexual. Anthers basifix. Bracteoles 2, not early fugacious. Madagascar. (Melanophyllaceae)
Melanophyllaceae
1499:(A)
previous:1497
Plants usually herbaceous. Leaves alternate, usually pinnately compound, rarely entire or palmately nerved to -compound. Stipules absent, leaf-sheaths often well developed. Flowers 5-merous, usually in compound umbels, rarely in capitules or racemes. Petals usually with an incurved apex. Style-cushions usually 2 or bilobed. Styles 2, free. Ovule apical, pendulous, epitropous. Fruit a schizocarp, rarely a nut.
next:1500
1499:(B)
Plants woody, rarely herbaceous, then either stipular sheath distinct (Stilbocarpa, Araliaceae), or leaves in whorls of 3 or 4 (Panax, Araliaceae)
next:1501
1500:(A)
previous:1499
Fruits with a membranous endocarp, mesocarp with parallel resinous canals.
1500:(B)
Fruits with a woody endocarp, mesocarp without resinous canals, or only in the primary ribs. Central axis of the fruit not becoming free. (Hydrocotylaceae)
1501:(A)
previous:1499
Stipules or stipular structures absent, but an inter-petiolar ridge sometimes present. Flowers usually in a raceme or in a panicle.
next:1502
1501:(B)
Stipules or an inter-petiolar stipular sheath present. Flowers usually in racemose umbels, or in capitules, or in spikes. Style-cushions usually undivided. Fruit a drupe, rarely a berry, or a nut, or a schizocarp, endocarp usually indurated. Ovule epitropous.
1502:(A)
previous:1501
Flowers unisexual.
next:1503
1502:(B)
Flowers bisexual.
next:1504
1503:(A)
previous:1502
Flowers 5-merous. Ovary 4-locular. Himalaya, China. (Toricelliaceae)
Toricelliaceae
1503:(B)
Flowers 4-merous. Ovary 2-locular. Madagascar. (Kaliphora)
1504:(A)
previous:1502
Ovary 4-locular. Ovules with a ventral raphe. Young parts with stellate hairs. S. Africa. (Curtisiaceae)
Curtisiaceae
1504:(B)
Ovary 1 - 3(- 5)-Locular. Ovules with a dorsal raphe.
1505:(A)
previous:1487
Ovules 2 per locule. Woody plants.
next:1506
1505:(B)
Ovules 2 or more per locule, rarely 2, then plants herbaceous and climbing with tendrils and anthers extrorse.
next:1511
1506:(A)
previous:1505
Ovules ascending. Leaves alternate. Stamens 10.
1506:(B)
Ovules pendulous.
next:1507
1507:(A)
previous:1506
Stamens 6 - 10.
next:1508
1507:(B)
Stamens 5. Leaves undivided. Anthers introrse.
next:1510
1508:(A)
previous:1507
Leaves opposite. Stamens 8 - 10.
1508:(B)
Leaves alternate.
next:1509
1509:(A)
previous:1508
Stamens 6-8. W. Malesia. (Anisophyllaceae: Combretocarpus)
Anisophyllaceae
1509:(B)
Stamens 10. S. China, Indochina. (Mytilaria)
1510:(A)
previous:1507
Shrubs or trees. Stipules present. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual, in cymes. Fruit a drupe. Endosperm absent.
1510:(B)
Ericoid shrublets. Stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, in capitules, or in spikes, or in racemes. Fruit a capsule or a nut. Endosperm copious. S. Africa.
1511:(A)
previous:1505
Flowers unisexual. Endosperm absent.
next:1512
1511:(B)
Flowers bisexual or polygamous.
next:1513
1512:(A)
previous:1511
Plants usually climbing with tendrils or prostrate. Corolla usually valvate. Ovules 2 or 3 per locule. Fruit a berry or a nut.
1512:(B)
Erect shrubs. Corolla imbricate. Ovules 10 - 12 per locule. Fruit a capsule. S. Africa. (Montiniaceae: Montinia)
Montiniaceae
1513:(A)
previous:1511
Trees. Stipules present. Flowers bisexual and in spikes, or polygamous and in capitules. Calyx undivided. Stamens 5 or 10. Anthers with valves. Queensland. (Neostrearia)
1513:(B)
Erect herbs or woody plants., rarely prostrate or climbing. Stipules absent, if present scale-like and plant grass-like.
next:1514
1514:(A)
previous:1513
Stamens 2 or 3. Fruit dry, indehiscent. Herbs, forming tussocks. Sepals 5-7. Petals 5-10. Disk extra-staminal. Temperate and (sub)Antarctic S. Hemisphere. (Donatia, also in Saxifragaceae or in Donatiaceae)
Donatiaceae
1514:(B)
Stamens 4 - 10. Fruit a capsule. Anthers introrse or latrorse.
next:1515
1515:(A)
previous:1514
Herbs.
1515:(B)
Shrubs, or trees, or woody climbers.
next:1516
1516:(A)
previous:1515
Flowers not epiphyllous.
next:1517
1516:(B)
Flowers fasciculate on the midrib of a leaf. S. America. (Dulongiaceae)
Dulongiaceae
1517:(A)
previous:1516
Disk absent.
next:1518
1517:(B)
Disk present. Flowers 5-merous. Petals valvate. Styles 2. Itea, in Iteaceae or Escalloniaceae)
Iteaceae Escalloniaceae
1518:(A)
previous:1517
Indument absent, or hairs simple. Inflorescence sometimes with sterile marginal flowers with enlarged sepals. (Hydrangeaceae: Hydrangea)
Hydrangeaceae
1518:(B)
Indument usually of stellate hairs. Sterile marginal flowers absent. (Philadelphaceae)
Philadelphaceae