IDENTIFICATION KEY OF GUIANESE SPECIES OF SERIES LAURIFOLIAE KILLIP EX CERVI

1. Plants with two glands at the middle of petiole or below (on mature leaves) ................................................ 2

— Plants with two glands at the apex of petiole or just below the apex (on mature leaves) ............................... 4

2. Flowers with two equal outer series of filaments ............................................ P. kapiriensis Rome & Coppens

— Flowers with two unequal outer series (the outermost can even be completely atrophied) ............................ 3

3. Flowers with a fourth inner series of filaments almost perpendicular to the androgynophore, closing the nectary chamber ......................................................................................................... P. cerasina Annonay & Feuillet

— Flowers without this fourth series ...................................................................... P. riparia Martius ex Masters

4. Flowers with two unequal outer series ......................................................................................................... 5

— Flowers with equal outer series .................................................................................................................... 7

5. Bracts purple pinkish ............................................................................................... P. gabrielleana Vanderpl.

— Bracts green ................................................................................................................................................. 6

6. Stipules orange ............................................................................................................ P. rufostipulata Feuillet

— Stipules green ............................................................................................. P. laurifolia L. (mainly cultivated)

7. Ovary pubescent, hypanthium absent (nectary chamber directly connected to sepals), corona filaments very slender ............................................................................................................................... P. acuminata DC.

— Ovary glabrous, hypanthium present, corona filaments thicker ............................................. P. nitida Kunth.