Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Herbs, vines, shrubs and trees.

Stems: Woody or herbaceous.

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Leaves: Leaves simple or compound. Leaves mostly alternate; a few species with opposite leaves. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence often terminal. Flowers mostly radially symmetrical. Sepals connate (at least partially). Petals often fused and plicate. Stamens adnate and equal in number to the corolla.

Fruit: Fruit type various; calyx often persistent on the fruit.

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