Dicot. Flowers regular with a cup-shaped hypanthium (disk on the rim of which the sepals, petals and stamens are attached). Sepals 5, sometimes 4, patly united. Petals 5, separate. Stames 5 to many. Pistils 1 to many, separate or united into a 2- to 5-parted compound pistil. Alternate leaves, simple or compound, usually toothed at the outer margin. Herbaceous plants, shrubs or trees.