Vessels without vestured pits. Reproductive type, pollination . Plants hermaphrodite, or monoecious, or dioecious, or gynodioecious, or polygamomonoecious. Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology . The terminal inflorescence unit racemose .
Calyx lobes markedly shorter than the tube to markedly longer than the tube.
Corolla lobes markedly longer than the tube. Androecium exclusively of fertile stamens, or including staminodes. Endothecium developing fibrous thickenings. The initial microspore tetrads tetrahedral. Outer integument contributing to the micropyle, or not contributing to the micropyle.