Habit: shrub, herb, vine
Important diagnostics: tendrils present
Taxon group: dicots
Leaf: position: opposite, alternate
Leaf: nature: simple, pinnately compound
Leaf: blade: margin: entire, lobed, cleft, parted or divided
Leaf: stipules: absent
Flowers: inflorescence: solitary, corymb, head, cyme, panicle
Flowers: sexuality: bisexual
Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic, zygomorphic
Flowers: disc: present
Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 5
Flowers: sepal/calyx nature: imbricate, valvate, tubular, campanulate
Flowers: petal position: connate or basally connate
Corolla: rotate, campanulate, funnelform, salverform
Stamen: number: 5
Stamen: anthers: opening by longitudinal slits
Stamen: filaments: inserted on the corolla
Pistil: style: style 1, or styles more or less connate
Pistil: ovary: 2-loculed, 3-loculed, 4-loculed, 5-loculed
Pistil: ovule: 1 per locule, 2 per locule, 3 per locule, 4+ per locule
Pistil: pistil: ovules axillary placentation
Ovary: position: superior
Stigma: 2-cleft, 3-cleft
Fruit: types and characters: a capsule (incl. pod, follicle, etc.), winged/samara
Fruit: seed: winged
Seed: embryo: straight
Seed: endosperm: seeds with endosperm
Google Image Search: Link
Dictionary of The Families & Genera of Chinese Seed Plants: Link
Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link
