bole | habit | large trees 30+ m or small trees or shrubs |
bole | buttresses | absent |
bole | bole_form | cylindrical |
bole | spines | absent |
bole | bark_outer_color | green or red or gray or brown |
bole | bark_peeling | not peeling |
bole | slash_color | white or yellow or orange or brown |
bole | slash_lamination | absent |
bole | slash_odor | absent or aromatic |
bole | exudate | absent |
twig | terminal_buds_enclosed_by_leaves | no |
twig | clumped_hairs | absent |
twig | complex_hairs | absent |
twig | stinging_hairs | absent |
twig | mature_twig_indumentum | absent or present |
twig | twig_indumentum_density | sparse or dense |
twig | twig_cross_section | terete |
twig | leaf_location | clustered at twig end |
twig | leaf_insertion | whorled |
twig | leaves_per_whorl | 3-8 |
stipule | stipules | absent |
leaf | leaf_scalelike_or_needlelike | none |
leaf | leaf_complexity | simple |
leaf | petiole_length | less than a quarter |
leaf | petiole_winged | not winged |
leaf | petiole_attachment | base of leaf |
leaf | petiole_base_swelling | not swollen |
leaf | petiole_apex_swelling | not swollen |
leaf | petiole_cross_section | flattened or grooved |
leaf | petiole_wrinkling | smooth or longitundinal |
leaf | leaf_similarity | homophyllus or heterophyllus |
leaf | leaf_texture | coriaceous |
leaf | leaf_base | symmetrical |
leaf | leaf_dissection | not dissected |
leaf | leaf_margins | entire |
leaf | margin_plane | flat or revolute |
leaf | leaf_base_shape | tapered |
leaf | leaf_apex_shape | acute or acuminate |
leaf | upper_leaf_surface | matte or shining |
leaf | lower_leaf_surface | matte or glaucous |
leaf | primary_venation | pinnate |
leaf | primary_vein_above | roundly raised or flat |
leaf | secondary_vein_spacing | open |
leaf | secondaries_above | raised or flat or sunken |
leaf | secondary_vein_course | mostly parallel or mostly converging |
leaf | secondary_vein_angle | medium |
leaf | secondary_vein_termination | brochidodromous or eucamptodromous |
leaf | secondary_vein_branching | not branched |
leaf | intersecondary_veins | absent or all less than half |
leaf | tertiary_veins_above | raised or flat or sunken |
leaf | tertiary_vein_form | distinctly percurrent |
leaf | direction_of_percurrence | perpendicular to midrib or parallel to midrib |
leaf | ramified_branching | absent |
leaf | domatia | absent |
leaf | leaf_glands | absent or pellucid dots |
leaf | marginal_and_petiolar_glands | absent |
leaf | hairs_on_mature_leaf | absent or present |
leaf | hair_density | sparse or dense |
inflor | inflorescence | multiple |
inflor | inflorescence_position | terminal or axillary |
inflor | inflorescence_axis | unbranched |
inflor | specialized_inflorescence_units | absent or present |
inflor | type_of_inflorescence_unit | heads |
flower | numerous_persistant_floral_bracts | present |
flower | floral_sexuality | at least some unisexual |
flower | floral_oecy | dioecious |
flower | peduncle | present |
flower | flower_size | microscopic or to about 0.5 cm |
flower | floral_symmetry | actinomorphic |
flower | floral_column | absent |
flower | hypanthium | absent |
flower | disk | absent |
flower | perianth | present |
flower | perianth_type | T only or vestigial |
flower | tepal_number | 6unequal |
male | stamen_number | 9 |
male | stamen_filaments | present |
male | stamen_fascicling | all free |
male | stamen_adnation | free |
male | stamen_size | equal sizes |
male | stamen_mery | more but not a perianth whorl multiple |
male | anther_locule_number | 4 |
male | anther_adornment | not awned |
male | anther_dehiscence | valves |
female | ovary_position | superior |
female | carpel_arrangement | solitary |
female | carpel_number | 1 |
female | locule_number | 1 |
female | style_presence | solitary including joined |
female | stigma_lobes | 1 |
female | stigma_shape | not distinctive |
fruit | common_fruit_type | berry |
fruit | fruit_fleshiness | fleshy |
fruit | fruit_aggregation | not multiple or aggregate |
fruit | fruit_dehiscence | indehiscent |
fruit | fruit_accessory_tissue | in or on a fleshy perianth |
fruit | fruit_wings | absent |
seed | seed_number_and_multiple | 1 |
seed | seed_size | less than 5 mm or to about 1 cm or to about less than 5 mmbarely visible cm |
seed | seed_wings | absent |
seed | seed_ruminations | seed uniform |
seed | seed_aril | absent |
seed | seed_endosperm | absent |
info | field_characters | leaves in whorls; perianth hairy; drupe on enlarged cup shaped perianth tube |