About the key
 
 

The key is an adaptation of a book: KOEKEMOER, M., STEYN, H.M. & BESTER, S.P. 2013. Guide to plant families of southern Africa. Strelitzia 31. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

The key is not coded to take the user to one single family (although some character choices may do that), but to rather identify a shortlist of families. From this point it is fairly easy to find the correct family by reading the diagnostic characters and looking at the images.
The authors: Marinda Koekemoer, Hester Steyn and Pieter Bester can be contacted at:

National Herbarium
SANBI
Private Bag X101
Pretoria
0001
South Africa

Tel: +27 (0) 12 843 5000
Fax: +27 (0) 12 804 3211

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http://www.sanbi.org

LUCID is a computer software package for developing easy-to-use matrix-based, multi-access keys. It allows for the addition of images and multimedia components to ensure a user-friendly experience.

The LUCID development team can be contacted at:
Centre for Biological Information Technology
The University of Queensland
Brisbane
Queensland 4061
Australia

[email protected]
www.lucidcentral.org

Other keys by the main author (for Helichrysum and the Relhanieae):
http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/helichrysum/

http://keys.lucidcentral.org/key-server/key.jsp?keyld=69