Deciduous [or evergreen],±pubescent trees or shrubs. Leaves simple usually with
deciduous stipules [or stipules fused or rarely absent], peti late, alternate [or opposite] …

Perennial [or rarely annual], rhizomatous and often stoloniferous herbs; above-ground stem
simple, terminating in an inflorescence; roots fibrous; sap often red or orange. Stems …

Trees, shrubs [or frequently lianas], typically with unicellular medi-fixed trichomes. Leaves
opposite [rarely alternate or whorled; two glands often present toward the base of the blades …

Shrubs or trees with simple, alternate, exstipulate leaves. Flowers com-plete, showy, borne
singly in the axils of the leaves. Sepals 5 (6), im-bricate (quincuncial: 2 outside, 2 inside, 1 in …

1 Prepared for a generic flora of the southeastern United States, a joint projec of the Gray
Herbarium and the Arnold Arboretum made possible through the suppo of the National …

A monotypie family 2 of herbaceous dicotyledons distinguished by per-fect, hypogynous,
zygomorphic flowers; synsepalous calyx with the 3 upper lobes subulate and hooked; …

1 Prepared for the Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States, a joint project of the
Arnold Arboretum and the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University made possible through the …

The Jamaican species of Tabernaemontana were independently and perhaps
simultaneously revised, shortly before 1938, by Friedrich Markgraf in Berlin, RE Woodson in …

Anemophilous trees, often with mottled bark falling off in large flakes; non-glandular hairs
either long, multicellular-uniseriate, or shorter, with whorls of uniseriate branches, matted …

Strong-scented annual herbs [or perennials, sometimes with tuberous roots], pubescent with
both glandular and nonglandular hairs. Leaves exstipulate, simple, long-petioled, opposite …