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Herbs. Flowers in terminal and lateral racemes, hermaphrodite, regular. Sepals 4, free, oblong-elliptic or oblong-spathulate, somewhat accrescent, membranous, inconspicuously veined. Stamens 4; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of 1 carpel,ellipsoid, somewhat flattened; style short, with a peltate stigma. Fruit a globose berry, with a thin pericarp, juicy. Seed discoidal, with a brittle black testa, often covered with very short spreading hairs.
Herbs or subshrubs. Stems erect, dichotomous, angulate, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves long petiolate; leaf blade ovate, base rounded or attenuate, apex acuminate. Racemes terminal or axillary, erect or curved, slender. Flowers bisexual, small. Tepals 4, persistent. Stamens 4. Ovary superior, ovoid, 1-carpelled, 1-loculed. Style shorter than ovary, slightly curved; stigma capitate. Berry red or orange.
Herbs or subshrubs, perennial, woody at base. Leaves alternate. Inflorescences axillary or terminal racemes, 5-50-flowered. Flowers: sepals 4; stamens 4; carpel 1, ovary 1-loculed; style present; stigma 1, capitate. Fruits berries, red to orange or yellow, subglobose. Seed 1.
Monoecious herbs.Inflorescence a lax raceme, terminal or in upper axils; flowers bisexual.Perianth 4-merous. Stamens 4. Ovary unicarpellate, glabrous. Fruit a berry.
Ovary globose to elliptic, somewhat compressed laterally, unicarpellate; style short, curved; stigma capitate.
Sepals 4, more or less free, subequal, oblong-elliptic, rounded or acute at apex, erect or spreading in fruit.
Fruit globose, orange, red or purple, juicy; pericarp thin, adherent to seed.
Inflorescences racemes, terminal and axillary, suberect, many-flowered.
Seed 1, discoidal; testa crustaceous, black, often pubescent.
Stamens 4; filaments free; anthers dorsifixed, linear.
Herbs, sometimes subshrubby and woody at base.
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic.
Stems erect or straggling.
Leaves petiolate.
