RHAMNACEAE

 

Trees, or shrubs, erect or climbing, leaves mostly alternate, simple, usually stipulate, flowers bisexual, actinomorphic small and greenish mostly in axillary corymbs or cymose inflorescences, sepals 5, lobes valvates, petals 5, anthers 2 celled, dehiscing longitudinally, pistil 1, ovary superior, 2-4 loculed, ovule 1 in each locule, fruit berry capsule or rarely samaroid; seeds with embryo large and straight, the endosperm copious or scant.