By R. Keller
This box advisor allows clients to spot tropical woody crops around the globe and within the absence of flora or culmination by way of morphological and macroanatomical gains that are simply observable, everlasting, and which offer loads of taxonomic info. The id approach has been designed within the kind of a dichotomous key, that's liberally illustrated with figures and plates of woody crops displaying their structure and the morphological characters of barks, branches and leaves. This advisor must also alert clients to the rhythms, varieties, odours, or even textures of the tropical plant international - a brand new standpoint that constitutes a sensory method of botany.
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P8B THEACEAE Gordonia (AS, North AM) sixteen* Leaf pretty petiolate. younger leaf folding revolute (~F16 e). GOODENIACEAE Scaevola (mainly AU,PF) 6* 36 Branches now not plagiotropic via apposition. (CORNER's version f. s. spp. ). 17 Leaves with pellucid dots or glandular trichomes (shiny or opaque) or with waxy indumentum underneath. 18 Leaves with pellucid dots (see PI. ~F19) and fragrant leaves or bark (strange or strange scent f. s. spp. ). 19 Petiole articulate with the lamina (~F15 q) or distally pulvinate (~F15 p). nook: e. g. Erythrochiton; KORIBA: e. g. Esenbeckia. (L. huge, cuneate; petiole winged, ~F15 d; f. s. spp. ). ~P18B RUTACEAE e. g. Erythrochiton, Esenbeckia, Pilocarpus (AM), Toddalia (AS) 19* Petiole now not articulate and never distally pulvinate. 20 AS, AU, PF. (Terminal bud scaly). ~P12A MYRTACEAE e. g. Tristania (AS,AU,PF) 20* AM. Terminal bud no longer scaly. CANELLACEAE Cinnamodendron (AM) ~P2B 18* Leaves no longer pellucid dotted or bark and leaves now not fragrant. 21 Branches monopodial (RAUH or CORNER's model). Leaves and bark no longer fragrant. Trichomes glandular and glossy (Pellucid dots f. s. spp. ). ~P9B MYRSINACEAE e. g. Rapanea (mainly AM) 21 * Branches sympodial. 22 Indument waxy underneath the leaves. 23 AS. Petiole lengthy, somewhat enlarged distally. Leaves no longer coriaceous. ~P5A HAMAMELIDACEAE Rhodoleia (AS) 23* 22* now not in AF. Petiole now not enlarged, brief. L. coriaceous. WINTERACEAE e. g. Zygogynum (NG,PF), Drimys (AM,AS) Leaves with no waxy indumentum. (Leaves aromatic). 24 AM, AS. Modules with pseudowhorled leaves (~F9 c). ~P2B ILLICIACEAE Illicium (AM,AS) 24* AM, AF? Leaves now not pseudo whorled. ~P2B 17* CANELLACEAE e. g. Canella (AM) Leaves with no pellucid dots or glandular trichomes or waxy indumentum. 25 Venation without problems observable or hidden via the indumentum. (see p. 39) 26 Apices of twigs with leaves enormously disposed in rosettes (~F9 c) or bark that comes off in fibrous strips. (See additionally additional: BORAGINACEAE, a few Cordia having a fibrous bark). 27 Buds and apices with ample indumentum of appressed hairs (~F20 e). 28 Dense indumentum of thick hairs. Bark fibrous. ~PlOB THYMELEACEAE e. g. Daphnopsis (AM), Lasiosiphon (AF,MA,AS) 37 28* Indumentum diversified. Bark no longer fibrous. ~P8B THEACEAE e. g. Ternstroemia (mainly AM,AS) 27* Indument diversified or absent. (CORNER's version f. s. spp. ). 29 younger leaf folding convolute (~F16 c). AF, MA, AS. brief internodes among lots of the leaves. ~P9A LECYTHIDACEAE Petersianthus (AF,AS), Foetidia (AF,MA,AS) 29* younger leaf now not highly convolute. 30 Bark that may be pulled off in fibrous strips (Bark with community of fibres, ~F3 a; LEEUWENBERG, KORIBA). ~P9A LECYTHIDACEAE e. g. Gustavia, Grias (AM), Barringtonia (mainly AS,PF) 30* Bark various. 31 AM. Trunk unbranched (CORNER) with huge, elongated L. (Clavija, Theophrasta) or modular structure (KORIBA) with whole, subulate L. (Jacquinia). ~P9B THEOPHRASTACEAE Clavija,Jacquinia, Theophrasta (AM) 31 * AF, AS, AU, PF. Modular structure. Leaves subsessile or almost immediately petiolate, with cuneate PITTOSPORACEAE base. (KORIBA).