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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
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Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
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Euphorbiaceae
Flowers unisexual and arranged within a cup-shaped collection of
connate
bracts, a number of male flowers (single stamens) surrounding a solitary female flower, i.e. a
cyathium
(Fig. 26)
Euphorbiaceae
consider the other alternative
Latex absent or red latex present
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Leaves without
superficial
red glands
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Leaves with 2–5 glands at base of
lamina
on
petiole
or on margin just above the base
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reject this alternative
Leaf veins
palmate
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Leaf veins pinnate