Vessel end-walls simple. Reproductive type, pollination . Fertile flowers functionally male, or functionally female, or functionally male and functionally female . Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology . The terminal inflorescence unit racemose .
Inflorescences racemose or spicate.
Androecium exclusively of fertile stamens. Locules without 'false septa' . Gynoecium stylate, or non-stylate. The fruiting carpels coalescing into a secondary syncarp to not coalescing. Seeds copiously endospermic .