Fertile flowers hermaphrodite . Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology . The terminal inflorescence unit cymose. Inflorescences cincinni or dichasia, sometimes pseudoracemose. Free hypanthium absent.
Calyx lobes markedly longer than the tube.
Endothecium developing fibrous thickenings. The initial microspore tetrads tetrahedral. Locules partially secondarily divided by 'false septa', or without 'false septa'. Outer integument not contributing to the micropyle . Polar nuclei fusing prior to fertilization.