Flora Zambesiaca

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Key to Sesuvium


1 a Flowers pedicellate, the pedicel 4–20 mm. long; stems smooth, rooting at the nodes; seeds smooth
FZ account for Sesuvium portulacastrum
b – Flowers sessile; stems usually rough-warty, not rooting at the nodes; seeds rugose
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2 a Seeds with more than 20 often somewhat inconspicuous transverse wrinkles
FZ account for Sesuvium hydaspicum
b – Seeds with less than 20 usually prominent transverse wrinkles
FZ account for Sesuvium nyasicum