Habit: tree, shrub, herb, liana
Important diagnostics: aromatic oil
Taxon group: dicots
Plant: dioecious
Leaf: position: opposite, alternate, verticillate/whorled
Leaf: nature: simple
Leaf: venation: pinnate, palmate
Leaf: blade: margin: entire
Leaf: stipules: with stipular sheath
Flowers: inflorescence: raceme, spike, umbel
Flowers: sexuality: bisexual, unisexual, polygamous
Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic
Flowers: perianth number: 0
Flower: bract: present
Flower: pedicel: absent
Stamen: number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10+
Stamen: anthers: opening by longitudinal slits, 2-celled
Stamen: filaments: free
Pistil: style: absent, style 1, or styles more or less connate
Pistil: carpel: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+
Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed
Pistil: ovule: 1 per locule
Pistil: pistil: connate or basally connate
Ovary: position: superior
Stigma: indehiscent, 2-cleft, 3-cleft, 4+ -cleft
Fruit: types and characters: a nut (incl. achene, caryopsis, schizocarp, pyrene, etc.), fleshy (berry, drupe, pome)
Seed: endosperm: seeds with endosperm
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Dictionary of The Families & Genera of Chinese Seed Plants: Link
Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link
