Habit: shrub, herb, vine
Important diagnostics: with milky juice
Taxon group: dicots
Stem: stolonous
Leaf: position: opposite, alternate, verticillate/whorled
Leaf: blade: margin: entire, lobed, cleft, parted or divided
Leaf: stipules: absent
Flowers: inflorescence: solitary, raceme, spike, panicle
Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic
Flowers: disc: present
Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 4, 5
Flowers: petal nature: valvate, imbricate
Corolla: campanulate
Stamen: number: 4, 5, 6
Pistil: ovary: 2-loculed, 3-loculed, 4-loculed, 5-loculed
Pistil: pistil: ovules axillary placentation
Ovary: position: superior, inferior
Fruit: types and characters: a capsule (incl. pod, follicle, etc.), fleshy (berry, drupe, pome)
Google Image Search: Link
Dictionary of The Families & Genera of Chinese Seed Plants: Link
Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link
