| With only eight taxa, the key chart of the Solanaceae could easily combine the synoptic view with readable character descriptions. For a genus like Carex, with 101 species in the Swedish flora this is hardly possible. I just had to see what could be done, anyway. (You can imagine the time spent - but it's nice to have the visualized structure to work with.) |
The indented key for Carex in Krok-Almqvist is subdivided into four main keys and covers eight pages. A few of the species key out in more than one place. So you can certainly not fit the character descriptions into the synoptic view in such a maneagable space as for the Solaneceae. |
