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Key to Ardisia

Primulaceae

Ardisia

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(c) Joseph, Aubert - CC-BY
1 Leaf blades serrate; inflorescences 3-5-flowered; stoloniferous shrub to 0.4 m tall
1 Leaf blades crenate or entire; inflorescences 5-18+-flowered; nonstoloniferous shrubs or trees, 1-15 m tall.
(c) Lewis - CC-BY-SA
  2 Leaf margins crenate; fruit red when ripe
  2 Leaf margins entire; fruits black or dark purple when ripe.
(c) Bradley, Keith
(c) Keim, Mary - CC-BY-NC-SA, permission granted to NCBG
    3 Branchlets with red papillae and sometimes also with hairs; inflorescences panicles of racemes, borne terminally