Leaves with stipules. Some with bipinnate leaves but most have phyllodes. Flowers are small, yellow, actinomorphic and arranged in heads or spikes with a mass of conspicuous yellow anthers. Fruit a legume. Includes the genus Acacia.
Flowers usually hermaphrodite and regular.
Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe. Latex sometimes present. Inflorescence consists of several male flowers and one female flower enclosed in a cup-shped involucre of 5 fused bracts. In Clematis , leaves are opposite, simple or compound, and twining. Female flowers become a cluster of achenes, each bearing a long, plumose awn derived from the style.