Wood parenchyma apotracheal. Reproductive type, pollination . Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology . Inflorescences terminal, or axillary. Free hypanthium absent .
Calyx lobes markedly longer than the tube.
Androecium exclusively of fertile stamens. Pollen shed as single grains. Carpels reduced in number relative to the perianth, or isomerous with the perianth. Locules secondarily divided by 'false septa', or without 'false septa'. Placentation axile to apical.