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Key to Cleomaceae
https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/main.php?pg=show-key.php&keyid=40157
2 Plants lacking nodal spines and lacking prickles on petioles and leaf veins. | |
3 Filaments free from gynophore | |
5 Bracts subtending the pedicels with expanded blades, sometimes even trifoliolate. | |
7 Sepals deltate, to 2 mm long; petals whitish or yellow; largest leaflets < 7 mm wide; capsules 2-5-35 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide; lower leaves 3-foliolate, upper leaves and bracts in the inflorescence 1-foliolate | |
7 Sepals linear-lanceolate, 2-5 mm long; petals white to blue, pink, or purplidh; largest leaflets 7-25 mm wide; capsules 25-110 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; all leaves and bracts either 1-foliolate or 3-foliolate. |