Habit: shrub, herb

Hairs: glandular, stellate, branched, peltate or scale-like

Taxon group: dicots

Leaf: position: alternate, verticillate/whorled, basal, cauline, rosette

Leaf: nature: simple, compound, pinnately compound, ternately compound (3 leaflets), palmately compound

Leaf: blade: margin: entire, lobed, cleft, parted or divided

Leaf: stipules: absent

Flowers: inflorescence: solitary, raceme, corymb, panicle

Flowers: sexuality: bisexual

Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic

Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 4

Flowers: sepal position: all free from one another

Flowers: petal number/corolla lobes: 0, 4

Flower: bract: absent

Stamen: number: 1, 2, 4, 6

Stamen: arrangement: tetradynamous

Stamen: anthers: opening by longitudinal slits

Pistil: style: absent, style 1, or styles more or less connate

Pistil: carpel: 2

Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed, 2-loculed

Pistil: ovule: 1 per locule, 2 per locule, 3 per locule, 4+ per locule

Pistil: pistil: ovules parietal placentation

Ovary: position: superior

Fruit: types and characters: a capsule (incl. pod, follicle, etc.), a nut (incl. achene, caryopsis, schizocarp, pyrene, etc.)

Fruit: seed: 1 seed, 2 seeds, 3 seeds, 4+ seeds

Seed: cotyledons: folded or crumpled

Seed: endosperm: seeds without endosperm

Google Image Search: Link

Dictionary of The Families & Genera of Chinese Seed Plants: Link

Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link