Habit: tree, shrub, herb
Hairs: stellate
Taxon group: dicots
Leaf: position: opposite, alternate, verticillate/whorled
Leaf: nature: simple, compound, pinnately compound, ternately compound (3 leaflets), palmately compound
Leaf: blade: margin: entire, dentate
Leaf: stipules: absent
Flowers: inflorescence: raceme, spike, cyme, panicle, thyrse
Flowers: sexuality: bisexual, polygamous
Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic, zygomorphic
Flowers: disc: present
Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 4, 5, 6, 7+
Flowers: sepal/calyx nature: tubular, campanulate
Flowers: petal number/corolla lobes: 4, 5
Flowers: petal position: connate or basally connate
Flowers: petal nature: imbricate
Stamen: number: 2, 4, 5
Stamen: arrangement: didynamous
Stamen: anthers: dorsifixed, opening by longitudinal slits, 1-celled at anthesis, 2-celled
Stamen: filaments: inserted on the corolla
Pistil: style: style 1, or styles more or less connate
Pistil: carpel: 2, 4, 5
Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed, 2-loculed, 3-loculed, 4-loculed, 5-loculed, 6-loculed, 7+ loculed
Pistil: ovule: 1 per locule, 2 per locule
Ovary: position: superior
Stigma: 2-cleft
Fruit: types and characters: a nut (incl. achene, caryopsis, schizocarp, pyrene, etc.), fleshy (berry, drupe, pome)
Fruit: seed: 4+ seeds
Seed: embryo: straight
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
