| bole | habit | large trees 30+ m or small trees or shrubs |
| bole | buttresses | absent or present |
| bole | buttress_size | short or tall |
| bole | bole_form | hooped or fluted |
| bole | spines | absent |
| bole | bark_outer_color | green or gray or brown or black |
| bole | bark_peeling | not peeling |
| bole | slash_color | cream or yellow or orange or red or brown |
| bole | slash_lamination | absent |
| bole | slash_odor | absent |
| bole | exudate | absent |
| twig | terminal_buds_enclosed_by_leaves | no |
| twig | clumped_hairs | absent |
| twig | complex_hairs | absent or leaf |
| twig | complex_hair_type | stellate |
| twig | stinging_hairs | absent |
| twig | mature_twig_indumentum | absent or present |
| twig | twig_indumentum_density | sparse or dense |
| twig | twig_cross_section | terete or angled |
| twig | leaf_location | spaced down twig |
| twig | leaf_insertion | alternate |
| twig | leaf_plane | one plane or spiral |
| 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 or swollen full length |
| leaf | petiole_apex_swelling | not swollen |
| leaf | petiole_cross_section | terete or flattened or grooved |
| leaf | petiole_wrinkling | smooth or longitundinal or transverse |
| leaf | leaf_similarity | homophyllus |
| leaf | leaf_texture | coriaceous or chartaceous |
| leaf | leaf_base | asymmetrical or symmetrical |
| leaf | leaf_dissection | not dissected |
| leaf | leaf_margins | entire |
| leaf | margin_plane | flat or crisped or revolute |
| leaf | leaf_base_shape | cordate or rounded or tapered |
| leaf | leaf_apex_shape | retuse or rounded or acute or acuminate |
| leaf | upper_leaf_surface | matte or shining |
| leaf | lower_leaf_surface | matte or glaucous |
| leaf | primary_venation | pinnate or actinopinnate |
| leaf | basal_vein_origin | suprabasal |
| leaf | basal_vein_prominence | less than central |
| leaf | primary_vein_above | roundly raised or flat or sunken |
| leaf | secondary_vein_spacing | open |
| leaf | secondaries_above | raised or flat or sunken or not visible |
| leaf | secondary_vein_course | mostly parallel |
| leaf | secondary_vein_angle | medium or very steep |
| leaf | secondary_vein_termination | intramarginal or brochidodromous or eucamptodromous |
| leaf | secondary_vein_branching | not branched |
| leaf | intersecondary_veins | absent or all less than half or few more than half |
| leaf | tertiary_veins_above | raised or flat or sunken or not visible |
| leaf | tertiary_vein_form | distinctly percurrent or weakly percurrent or reticulate |
| leaf | direction_of_percurrence | perpendicular to midrib or parallel to midrib |
| leaf | ramified_branching | absent |
| leaf | domatia | absent or present |
| leaf | domatia_type | pit-like |
| leaf | domatia_distribution | along midrib or across lamina |
| leaf | leaf_glands | absent or papillose or laminar glands |
| leaf | marginal_and_petiolar_glands | absent or basal laminar |
| leaf | hairs_on_mature_leaf | absent or present |
| leaf | hair_density | sparse or dense |
| inflor | inflorescence | solitary or multiple |
| inflor | inflorescence_position | axillary or superaxillary or branch or trunk |
| inflor | inflorescence_axis | single point or branched |
| inflor | specialized_inflorescence_units | absent |
| flower | numerous_persistant_floral_bracts | absent |
| flower | floral_sexuality | bisexual or at least some unisexual |
| flower | floral_oecy | dioecious |
| flower | peduncle | present |
| flower | flower_size | 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 | K+C |
| flower | sepal_number | 3-5(-8) |
| flower | sepal_freedom | free or partially joined |
| flower | sepal_persistence | persistent in fruit |
| flower | sepal_accrescence | not accrescent or accrescent |
| flower | epicalyx | absent |
| flower | petal_presence | present |
| flower | petal_number | 3-5(-8) |
| flower | petal_fusion | all joined from base |
| flower | petal_texture | not fleshy |
| flower | petal_persistence | deciduous |
| flower | petal_stalks | sessile |
| flower | petal_margin | entire |
| male | stamen_number | 3-28(-100) |
| male | stamen_filaments | present |
| male | stamen_fascicling | all free or fascicled |
| male | stamen_adnation | free or adnate to perianth |
| male | stamen_size | equal sizes |
| male | stamen_mery | anisomerous or isomerous or diplostemonous or triplostemonous or polystemonous |
| male | isomerous_stamen_position | alternisepalous |
| male | anther_locule_number | 2 |
| male | anther_fixation | basifixed |
| male | anther_adornment | not awned |
| male | anther_dehiscence | long slits |
| female | ovary_position | superior |
| female | carpel_arrangement | syncarpous |
| female | carpel_number | 5(-16) |
| female | locule_number | 2-5(-16) |
| female | style_presence | solitary including joined or free and multiple |
| female | style_number | 2-5(-8) |
| female | stigma_lobes | 1-5(-8) |
| female | stigma_shape | not distinctive |
| fruit | common_fruit_type | berry |
| fruit | fruit_fleshiness | not fleshy or fleshy |
| fruit | fruit_aggregation | not multiple or aggregate |
| fruit | fruit_dehiscence | indehiscent |
| fruit | fruit_accessory_tissue | no fleshy perianth parts |
| fruit | fruit_wings | absent |
| seed | seed_number_and_multiple | 1-16 |
| 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 or seed ruminate |
| seed | seed_aril | absent |
| seed | seed_endosperm | present |
| info | field_characters | bark usually black; hard and brittle; leaves usually with black glands on the abaxial side; flowers articulated at base; calyx persistent and generally accrescent; seed usually with ruminate endosperm |
