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Key to Celastrus
https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/main.php?pg=show-key.php&keyid=40048
1 Mature capsules yellow or yellow-green; inflorescence terminal; capsules 1.0-1.3 cm in diameter; seeds 3.5-5.5 mm long; [FL waif only] | |
1 Mature capsules orange or if yellow, the inflorescence axillary (as in C. orbiculatus); inflorescence terminal (C. scandens) or axillary (C. orbiculatus); capsule 0.5-1.0 cm in diameter; seeds ca. 6 mm long; [widespread native and non-native lianas in our area] | |
2 Flowers in 2-3-flowered axillary cymes; mature leaves mostly obovate, averaging 1.2-1.4 (-1.7)× as long as wide; leaf tips typically < 0.3 cm long; expanding leaves folded (conduplicate); capsule yellow (contrasting with the seeds); pollen white; roots typically more orange-colored | |
2 Flowers in 6-many-flowered panicles terminal on leafy branches or branchlets; mature leaves mostly ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, averaging (1.8-) 2.0-2.6× as long as wide; leaf tips typically > 1.5 cm long; expanding leaves rolled (involute); capsule orange (similar in color to the seeds); pollen yellow; roots typically more yellow-colored | |
