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  • Vascular plant groups
  • Club mosses
  • Ferns
  • Vegetative key to families
  • Gymnosperms
  • Flowering plants
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Vegetative key to the families

Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
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LEAVES REDUCED TO SCALES ON THE AERIAL STEMS
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Saprophytic herbs (one a climber) usually without chlorophyll Orchidaceae
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Plants epiphytic on trees, logs, rocks
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Leaves short, usually no more than 5 times longer than broad
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Leaves linear, many times longer than broad