Habit: shrub, herb
Important diagnostics: succulent
Taxon group: dicots
Leaf: position: opposite, alternate, verticillate/whorled
Leaf: nature: simple, pinnately compound
Leaf: blade: margin: entire, lobed, cleft, parted or divided
Leaf: other characters: fleshy
Leaf: stipules: absent
Flowers: inflorescence: solitary, raceme, corymb, cyme, panicle
Flowers: sexuality: bisexual, unisexual
Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic
Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 4, 5
Flowers: sepal position: all free from one another, connate or basally connate
Flowers: petal number/corolla lobes: 4, 5
Flowers: petal position: all free from one another, connate or basally connate
Stamen: arrangement: same number as petals or sepals, twice or more number as petals or sepals
Pistil: carpel: 4, 5
Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed
Pistil: pistil: carpels free from each other
Fruit: types and characters: a capsule (incl. pod, follicle, etc.)
Fruit: seed: 1 seed, 2 seeds, 3 seeds, 4+ seeds
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
