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Key to Capparaceae

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1 Lower leaf surface glabrous; first-year stems glabrous; stamens 40-60 (-120); [FL peninsula]
1 Lower leaf surface lepidote or stellate-pubescent; first-year stems lepidote or stellate-pubescent; stamens 8-30; [FL peninsula or s. TX]
  2 Leaf blades 3-5 (-9) cm long × 1-2 cm wide, thin in texture, the apex acuminate, acute, or acute-obtuse; petiole nectaries absent; petals 5-6 (-8) mm long, capsules ovoid to obovoid, 1.3-1.7 (-2.0) cm long × 1.0-1.3 cm in diameter, not constricted between the seeds; [s. TX]
  2 Leaf blades 5-15 (-21) cm long × 2.5-5 (-8) cm wide, coriaceous, the apex usually notched (rarely acute or acuminate); petiole nectaries present; petals 12 -18 mm long; capsules narrowly cylindric, (7-) 20-38 cm long × 0.8-1.2 cm in diameter, constricted between the seeds; [FL peninsula]