Habit: shrub, liana, vine
Important diagnostics: tendrils present
Taxon group: dicots
Leaf: position: alternate
Leaf: nature: simple, compound, pinnately compound
Flowers: inflorescence: cyme
Flowers: sexuality: bisexual, unisexual
Flowers: disc: present
Flowers: sepal position: all free from one another, connate or basally connate
Stamen: number: 4, 5
Stamen: arrangement: antepetalous, same number as petals or sepals
Pistil: carpel: 1
Pistil: ovary: 2-loculed, 3-loculed, 4-loculed, 5-loculed, 6-loculed, 7+ loculed
Pistil: ovule: 2 per locule
Ovary: position: superior
Fruit: types and characters: fleshy (berry, drupe, pome)
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