Vessel end-walls scalariform. Reproductive type, pollination . Dioecious, or polygamodioecious . Functional female flowers often associated with staminodes. Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology .
Flowers minute, or small.
Placentation when apocarpous or one-carpelled marginal, or basal. Endosperm formation nuclear. Fruits from adjoining flowers generally aggregated into compound fruits . Fruit 1 seeded. Endosperm oily, or not oily.