| bole | habit | shrubs or arborescent |
| bole | buttresses | absent |
| bole | spines | absent |
| bole | bark_outer_color | white or green or red or gray or brown |
| bole | bark_peeling | not peeling |
| bole | exudate | absent |
| twig | terminal_buds_enclosed_by_leaves | no |
| twig | clumped_hairs | absent |
| twig | complex_hairs | absent or leaf or twig |
| twig | complex_hair_type | stellate or scale |
| twig | stinging_hairs | absent |
| twig | mature_twig_indumentum | absent or present |
| twig | twig_indumentum_density | sparse or dense |
| twig | twig_cross_section | angled |
| twig | leaf_location | spaced down twig or clustered at twig end |
| twig | leaf_insertion | alternate |
| twig | leaf_plane | spiral |
| stipule | stipules | absent |
| leaf | leaf_scalelike_or_needlelike | none |
| leaf | leaf_complexity | simple |
| leaf | petiole_length | less than a quarter or quarter to half |
| 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 | terete or flattened or grooved |
| leaf | petiole_wrinkling | smooth or longitundinal |
| leaf | leaf_similarity | homophyllus |
| leaf | leaf_texture | coriaceous or chartaceous |
| leaf | leaf_base | symmetrical |
| leaf | leaf_dissection | not dissected |
| leaf | leaf_margins | entire or crenate or toothed |
| leaf | margin_plane | flat |
| leaf | leaf_base_shape | rounded or tapered |
| leaf | leaf_apex_shape | acute or acuminate |
| leaf | upper_leaf_surface | matte |
| leaf | lower_leaf_surface | matte or shining |
| leaf | primary_venation | pinnate |
| leaf | primary_vein_above | sharply ridged or roundly raised or flat or sunken |
| leaf | secondary_vein_spacing | open |
| leaf | secondaries_above | flat or sunken |
| leaf | secondary_vein_course | mostly parallel or mostly converging |
| leaf | secondary_vein_angle | medium |
| leaf | secondary_vein_termination | intramarginal or brochidodromous or eucamptodromous or craspedodromous |
| leaf | secondary_vein_branching | not branched |
| leaf | intersecondary_veins | absent or all less than half or few more than half |
| leaf | tertiary_veins_above | flat or sunken or not visible |
| 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 |
| leaf | marginal_and_petiolar_glands | absent |
| leaf | hairs_on_mature_leaf | present |
| leaf | hair_density | sparse or dense |
| inflor | inflorescence | solitary or multiple |
| inflor | inflorescence_position | axillary or branch or trunk |
| inflor | inflorescence_axis | single point or branched |
| inflor | specialized_inflorescence_units | absent or present |
| inflor | type_of_inflorescence_unit | heads or corymbs |
| flower | numerous_persistant_floral_bracts | absent or present |
| flower | floral_sexuality | bisexual |
| flower | peduncle | present |
| flower | flower_size | to about 0.5 cm or to about 3 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 | 5 |
| flower | sepal_freedom | free |
| flower | sepal_persistence | persistent in fruit |
| flower | sepal_accrescence | not accrescent |
| flower | epicalyx | absent or present |
| flower | petal_presence | present |
| flower | petal_number | 5 |
| flower | petal_fusion | all joined from base |
| flower | petal_texture | not fleshy |
| flower | petal_persistence | deciduous |
| flower | petal_stalks | sessile |
| flower | petal_margin | entire or lobed |
| male | stamen_number | 100 |
| male | stamen_filaments | present |
| male | stamen_fascicling | all free |
| male | stamen_adnation | free or adnate to perianth |
| male | stamen_size | equal sizes or different sizes |
| male | stamen_mery | polystemonous |
| male | anther_locule_number | 2 |
| male | anther_fixation | dorsifixed |
| male | anther_adornment | not awned |
| male | anther_dehiscence | short slits |
| female | ovary_position | superior |
| female | carpel_arrangement | syncarpous |
| female | carpel_number | (2-)3-6(-7) |
| female | locule_number | (2-)3-6(-7) |
| female | style_presence | solitary including joined |
| female | stigma_lobes | (2-)3-6(-7) |
| 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 | no fleshy perianth parts |
| fruit | fruit_wings | absent |
| seed | seed_number_and_multiple | 100 |
| seed | seed_size | barely visible |
| seed | seed_wings | absent |
| seed | seed_ruminations | seed uniform |
| seed | seed_aril | absent |
| seed | seed_endosperm | present |
| info | field_characters | often with scaly hairs on twigs; flowers long pedicelled and sometimes cauliflorous; petals white; stamens numerous; berries with numerous seeds in a slime like gel |
