Seychellaria

Nuraliev, Maxim S., Cheek, Martin R. & Beer, Anton S., 2016, Seychellaria barbata (Triuridaceae), a new species from Marojejy National Park, Madagascar, Phytotaxa 268 (4), pp. 229-243 : 239-240

Key to the species of the genus Seychellaria

1. Inflorescence with more than 1 flower in axil of at least some bracts. Stamens usually with long filiform connective appendages. Staminodes filiform, as long as larger tepals to much longer than tepals. Madagascar, Comores... Seychellaria madagascariensis

- Inflorescence with 1 flower in axil of each bract (additional flowers if present are arrested in development before anthesis). Stamens without connective appendages. Staminodes capitate or clavate, shorter than the larger tepals ........................................... 2.

2. Bracteoles absent. Inflorescence with 6–12 flowers. Staminodes capitate. Seychelles............................. Seychellaria thomassetii

- Bracteoles present. Number of flowers in inflorescence various. Staminodes clavate. Madagascar or Africa ............................... 3.

3. Larger tepals of young male flowers with long hairs at apex and margin; larger female tepals also hairy. Inflorescence 6–7-flowered. Bracteoles free from bracts. Anthers elliptic. Female flowers with ca. 40–50 carpels. Madagascar...... Seychellaria barbata

- Male and female tepals completely glabrous. Inflorescence with more than 10 (up to 50) flowers. Bracteoles fused laterally to bracts. Anthers equilateral. Female flowers with ca. 25 carpels. Tanzania..................................................... Seychellaria africana