Petals 5, 2-7 or 0, distinct. Fruit a capsule or cluster of follicles. Herbs, trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple to pinnate or palmately compound. Inflorescence various, determinate or indeterminate.
Flowers perfect, regular.
Hypanthium present and well developed. Sepals 5 or 4-many, connate, sometimes subtended by bractlets. Petals 5 or 4-many, distinct. Stamens 1 or 10-many, distinct, developing centripetally. Fruit a drupe, achene, follicle, pome, aggregate of achenes, drupelets or follicles, sometimes with fleshy accessory tissue derived from the receptacle or hypanthium.