By Roland Keller
This box advisor allows clients to spot tropical woody vegetation around the globe and within the absence of flora or culmination via morphological and macroanatomical positive factors that are simply observable, everlasting, and which supply loads of taxonomic details. The id process has been designed within the type of a dichotomous key, that is liberally illustrated with figures and plates of woody crops exhibiting their structure and the morphological characters of barks, branches and leaves. This advisor also needs to alert clients to the rhythms, types, odours, or even textures of the tropical plant international - a brand new standpoint that constitutes a sensory method of botany.
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Leaves toothed, twigs flexible). g. ), Acalypha b) Venation densely reticulate. Stipule enclosing the apical bud. (RAUH). g. Euceraea (AM) c) AF. Leaves crenate, coriaceous. Venation distinctly reticulate. Twigs not easy to break (COOK). g. Panda (AF) 36* Rhy/Per and petiolar scars different. 38 V II running parallel to the margin (~F17 d) or external wood furrowed (~F3 f,g). 39 AM, AS. External wood furrowed. (Axillary buds with several scale leaves; branch collars, ~F2 g,h; L. toothed or lobate f.
Croton Petiole not pulvinate. 4 Leaves or bark aromatic. 5 Petiolar base sheathing the stem (~Fl5 al). 6 Nodes enlarged (~Fl1 h). 7 Branches plagiotropic, modular (PETIT: Piper) or herb with monopodial branches and large leaves: Pothomorphe. ~PlA PIPERACEAE very numerous spp. of Piper 2 1* Some stems with distichous phyllotaxy. g. Aristolochia arborea (AM) 6* Nodes not enlarged. All stems erect. (CORNER, CHAMBERLAIN, LEEUWENBERG, KORI~PlB ARALIACEAE BA, sheathing petiole ~Fl5 al). g. Dendropanax (AM) 5* No petiolar sheath.
Strychnos 20* Leaves different. 21 Branches or small twigs plagiotropic and sympodia!. (Leaves opposite or subopposite, the two L. of each pair slightly unequal in size. Branches plagiotropic, sympodial; un~P13A VIOLACEAE derside of L. pale green). g. AF. Branches erect or monopodia!. (Venation pinnate, ~F18 f,g; leaf folding conduplicate, ~F16 b; cauline gland accompanying the stipule, ~F19 b,: Qualea). g. Qualea, Vochysia (AM), Erismadelphus (West AF) 19* Leaves toothed or denticulate. 22 Leaves toothed with V II secant (~F17 p).