Flora of Zimbabwe: Utilities: All spot-characters search results

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Spot idSpot character
No. of records
13Epiphytic
158
14Lithophytic
202
22Terrestrial (used in the Pteridophyta and Orchidaceae only)
429
400Stellate or dendritic hairs
126
6Aquatic
75
2Trees
982
20Shrub over 2 m
488
721Leaves bearing spines or prickles
14
740Leaves alternate
526
743Leaves clustered at branch ends or on short shoots
14
804Inflorescence a cone
12
741Leaves simple
532
700Leaves reduced to scales or 0
74
701Leaves whorled
38
1100Seeds winged
52
739Leaves opposite
107
19Perennials
207
200White sap
209
742Leaves basal
5
803Inflorescence an umbel or pseudumbel
9
16Annuals
72
719Leaves with translucent gland dots (visible when held up to light)
33
738Leaf base sagittate
4
1000Fruits winged
127
1200Forest grasses
11
1201Grasses with broad leaves
9
729Leaves plicate
9
109Prickles or spines on trunk or stems
196
301Lemon-scented
8
712Leaves digitately compound with more than 3 leaflets
48
717Leaves 2(-3 or more) pinnate
111
1Climbing
221
9Bearing tendrils
152
0Succulent
219
21Shrub under 2 m
188
18Lianes
90
708Leaves 3-foliolate
80
911Ovary inferior or semi-inferior
311
401Medifixed hairs
12
4Myco-heterotrophic ("saprophytic")
8
5Without chlorophyll
14
730Leaves turning black on drying
19
753Leaf with (a few) special glands on the lamina
22
24Plant dioecious
22
755Leaves bearing numerous (non-translucent) glands
3
734Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) 3(-5)-veined from the base
23
505Stipules present
124
111Trunk or branches bearing flowers (cauliflory)
15
723Leaves with markedly rough surfaces
3
300Foetid
39
713Leaves palmately lobed
46
916Ovary superior
92
404Stinging (urticating) hairs
14
3Parasitic
141
104Stem square
50
506Stipules absent
52
746Leaves with entire margin
320
901Calyx accrescent
37
600Petiole channelled above
4
1002Fruit with hooks or hooked bristles
14
23Cushion plants
3
1101Seeds with an aril or aril-like structure
60
1016Fruit circumscissile, opening with a lid
14
902Calyx with an epicalyx
55
706Leaves peltate
19
601Petiole (markedly) swollen at apex
2
801Inflorescence supra-axillary
4
900Dicotyledons with parts in threes
19
10Bearing distinctly bent hooks
2
702Leaves both alternate and whorled or opposite on same plant
3
1010Fruit like acorns
3
201Yellow sap
4
715Leaves pinnatifid
11
744Leaves amplexicaul
2
1001Fruit prickly or spiny
22
745Leaves 2 (-3 or more) pinnatifid
2
800Inflorescence leaf-opposed
7
906Corolla / petals with a spur
10
718Leaves simple (or 1-foliolate) in predominantly compound families or genera
35
1011Fruit markedly ribbed
3
101Trunk with large knob-like projections (which may bear thorns)
13
707Leaves both simple and compound on the same plant
13
750Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) with toothed margin
127
1004Ripe fruit red
15
709Leaves imparipinnate with more than 3 leaflets
64
917Calyx with hooked hairs or bristles
1
726Leaves ericoid
30
605Petiole and/or rhachis bearing glands
11
100Trunk with bark peeling off in papery pieces
3
725Leaves sensitive
9
710Leaves paripinnate with 2 leaflets only
10
711Leaves paripinnate with more than 2 leaflets
73
500Stipules intrapetiolar
2
604Petiole and/or rhachis winged
28
1103Seeds "red and black"
10
502Stipules pinnate
2
720Leaves with translucent streaks or lines (visible when held up to light)
5
102Trunk or branches with corky bark
3
909Flowers appearing before the leaves
9
1020Fruit a berry
3
908Corolla resupinate
1
724Leaves (or leaflets) consistently emarginate (i.e. excluding plants with rarely emarginate leaves)
4
705Leaves anisophyllous
1
110Forked prickles or spines on trunk, stems
1
1019Fruit a capsule
76
1021Fruit covered in warts
2
722Leaves with domatia
72
910Staminal tube present
75
731Young leaves flushing red/ reddish-brown
1
1005Ripe fruit white
3
1013Fruit inflated
11
1018Fruit lobed
14
408Bearing scales
10
25Plant monoecious
12
704Leaves opposite in families with generally alternate leaves
2
751Leaves markedly discolorous
14
752Leaves with veins markedly impressed above
4
1007Ripe fruit black
5
503Stipules interpetiolar
5
103Stem winged
15
714Leaves pedate
4
756Leaf base asymmetric
2
754Leaves with a fissure on the underside of the lamina
6
747Leaf base cordate
30
1104Seeds with floss (long cottony hairs)
16
17Biennials
3
1102Seeds with long hairs
15
507Stipules auriculate, amplexicaul or semi-amplexicaul
2
749Leaves with black dots
5
918Corolla hairy
1
202Orange-brown sap
1
510Stipules conspicuous
4
11Bearing hardened petioles
1
1015Fruit pendulous
5
302Aromatic? E.g. labiatae
2
904Corolla / petals fimbriate/2-fid
1
915Calyx circumscissile
11
748Leaves with auricles
4
728Leaves bullate
1
703Leaves alternate in families with generally opposite leaves
2
406Hairs with bulbous bases
2
504Stipules (or pseudostipules) present in families generally without stipules
4
405Hooked hairs
1
914Calyx winged
1
1006Ripe fruit yellow
4
1017Fruits beaked
14
919Calyx spathaceous
4
105Stem absent or very short, with a basal rosette, the flowers borne on peduncles
5
509Stipules bifid or with 2 lobes
7
508Stipules fimbriate or laciniate
2
1003Ripe fruit blue
4
806Inflorescence partly or wholly enclosed within an involucre
1
403Y-shaped (or forked) hairs
1
26Plant a mangrove
7
Total
8434

Number of different spot ids found: 154



Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-25

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2025). Flora of Botswana: Utilities: All spot-characters search results.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/utilities/utility-all-spots-query.php, retrieved 22 February 2025

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