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Key F3: Woody angiosperms with alternate, 2-pinnate leaves

Plantae

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Leaves evenly 2-pinnately compound
 ⇒ Fabaceae
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Leaves oddly pinnate-pinnatifid, 2-pinnately compound, or more complexly compound than 2-pinnate.
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Leaves pinnate-pinnatifid, with 7-19 leaflets, each leaflet pinnatifid into narrowly lanceolate lobes; {upper leaflet surface dark green, lower surface silvery with gray sericeous pubescence}
 ⇒ Grevillea robusta
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Leaves 2-pinnately compound, or even more complexly compound.
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Plant a shrub or tree, not climbing.
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Plant armed with prickles on the stem, and sometimes also on the axes and main veins of the leaves
 ⇒ Aralia
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Plant a shrub, < 2.5 m tall.
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Foliage green; leaflets ovate, acute at the tip; flowers 3-merous, the tepals white or cream; fruit a red berry
 ⇒ Nandina domestica
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Foliage blue-green; leaflets obovate, rounded or notched at the tip; flowers 4-5-merous, the sepals green, the petals yellow; fruit a capsule
 ⇒ Ruta
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Plant a tree, > 3 m tall when flowering and fruiting.
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Leaflets entire
 ⇒ Gymnocladus dioicus

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Leaflets serrate.

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Fruit a globose drupe, tan at maturity, 10-15 mm in diameter; inflorescence an axillary panicle; corolla lavender
 ⇒ Melia azedarach

(c) Bradley, Keith
(c) Bradley, Keith
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Fruit an inflated capsule, 30-50 mm long; inflorescence a terminal thyrse; corolla yellow
 ⇒ Koelreuteria

(c) Fleming, Gary P.
(c) Fleming, Gary P.