| | |
| 13 | Epiphytic | 159 |
| 14 | Lithophytic | 202 |
| 22 | Terrestrial (used in the Pteridophyta and Orchidaceae only) | 429 |
| 400 | Stellate or dendritic hairs | 126 |
| 6 | Aquatic | 75 |
| 2 | Trees | 984 |
| 20 | Shrub over 2 m | 492 |
| 721 | Leaves bearing spines or prickles | 14 |
| 740 | Leaves alternate | 526 |
| 743 | Leaves clustered at branch ends or on short shoots | 14 |
| 804 | Inflorescence a cone | 12 |
| 741 | Leaves simple | 532 |
| 700 | Leaves reduced to scales or 0 | 74 |
| 701 | Leaves whorled | 38 |
| 1100 | Seeds winged | 52 |
| 739 | Leaves opposite | 107 |
| 19 | Perennials | 212 |
| 200 | White sap | 209 |
| 742 | Leaves basal | 5 |
| 803 | Inflorescence an umbel or pseudumbel | 9 |
| 16 | Annuals | 74 |
| 719 | Leaves with translucent gland dots (visible when held up to light) | 33 |
| 738 | Leaf base sagittate | 4 |
| 1000 | Fruits winged | 127 |
| 1200 | Forest grasses | 11 |
| 1201 | Grasses with broad leaves | 9 |
| 729 | Leaves plicate | 9 |
| 109 | Prickles or spines on trunk or stems | 196 |
| 301 | Lemon-scented | 8 |
| 712 | Leaves digitately compound with more than 3 leaflets | 48 |
| 717 | Leaves 2(-3 or more) pinnate | 111 |
| 1 | Climbing | 221 |
| 9 | Bearing tendrils | 152 |
| 0 | Succulent | 219 |
| 21 | Shrub under 2 m | 190 |
| 18 | Lianes | 90 |
| 708 | Leaves 3-foliolate | 80 |
| 911 | Ovary inferior or semi-inferior | 311 |
| 401 | Medifixed hairs | 12 |
| 4 | Myco-heterotrophic ("saprophytic") | 8 |
| 5 | Without chlorophyll | 14 |
| 730 | Leaves turning black on drying | 19 |
| 753 | Leaf with (a few) special glands on the lamina | 22 |
| 24 | Plant dioecious | 22 |
| 755 | Leaves bearing numerous (non-translucent) glands | 3 |
| 734 | Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) 3(-5)-veined from the base | 23 |
| 505 | Stipules present | 124 |
| 111 | Trunk or branches bearing flowers (cauliflory) | 15 |
| 723 | Leaves with markedly rough surfaces | 3 |
| 300 | Foetid | 39 |
| 713 | Leaves palmately lobed | 46 |
| 916 | Ovary superior | 92 |
| 404 | Stinging (urticating) hairs | 14 |
| 3 | Parasitic | 141 |
| 104 | Stem square | 50 |
| 506 | Stipules absent | 52 |
| 746 | Leaves with entire margin | 320 |
| 901 | Calyx accrescent | 37 |
| 600 | Petiole channelled above | 4 |
| 1002 | Fruit with hooks or hooked bristles | 14 |
| 23 | Cushion plants | 3 |
| 1101 | Seeds with an aril or aril-like structure | 60 |
| 1016 | Fruit circumscissile, opening with a lid | 14 |
| 902 | Calyx with an epicalyx | 55 |
| 706 | Leaves peltate | 19 |
| 601 | Petiole (markedly) swollen at apex | 2 |
| 801 | Inflorescence supra-axillary | 4 |
| 900 | Dicotyledons with parts in threes | 19 |
| 10 | Bearing distinctly bent hooks | 2 |
| 702 | Leaves both alternate and whorled or opposite on same plant | 3 |
| 1010 | Fruit like acorns | 3 |
| 201 | Yellow sap | 4 |
| 715 | Leaves pinnatifid | 11 |
| 744 | Leaves amplexicaul | 2 |
| 1001 | Fruit prickly or spiny | 22 |
| 745 | Leaves 2 (-3 or more) pinnatifid | 2 |
| 800 | Inflorescence leaf-opposed | 7 |
| 906 | Corolla / petals with a spur | 10 |
| 718 | Leaves simple (or 1-foliolate) in predominantly compound families or genera | 35 |
| 1011 | Fruit markedly ribbed | 3 |
| 101 | Trunk with large knob-like projections (which may bear thorns) | 13 |
| 707 | Leaves both simple and compound on the same plant | 13 |
| 750 | Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) with toothed margin | 127 |
| 1004 | Ripe fruit red | 15 |
| 709 | Leaves imparipinnate with more than 3 leaflets | 64 |
| 917 | Calyx with hooked hairs or bristles | 1 |
| 726 | Leaves ericoid | 30 |
| 605 | Petiole and/or rhachis bearing glands | 11 |
| 100 | Trunk with bark peeling off in papery pieces | 3 |
| 725 | Leaves sensitive | 9 |
| 710 | Leaves paripinnate with 2 leaflets only | 10 |
| 711 | Leaves paripinnate with more than 2 leaflets | 73 |
| 500 | Stipules intrapetiolar | 2 |
| 604 | Petiole and/or rhachis winged | 28 |
| 1103 | Seeds "red and black" | 10 |
| 502 | Stipules pinnate | 2 |
| 720 | Leaves with translucent streaks or lines (visible when held up to light) | 5 |
| 102 | Trunk or branches with corky bark | 3 |
| 909 | Flowers appearing before the leaves | 9 |
| 1020 | Fruit a berry | 3 |
| 908 | Corolla resupinate | 1 |
| 724 | Leaves (or leaflets) consistently emarginate (i.e. excluding plants with rarely emarginate leaves) | 4 |
| 705 | Leaves anisophyllous | 1 |
| 110 | Forked prickles or spines on trunk, stems | 1 |
| 1019 | Fruit a capsule | 76 |
| 1021 | Fruit covered in warts | 2 |
| 722 | Leaves with domatia | 72 |
| 910 | Staminal tube present | 75 |
| 731 | Young leaves flushing red/ reddish-brown | 1 |
| 1005 | Ripe fruit white | 3 |
| 1013 | Fruit inflated | 11 |
| 1018 | Fruit lobed | 14 |
| 408 | Bearing scales | 10 |
| 25 | Plant monoecious | 12 |
| 704 | Leaves opposite in families with generally alternate leaves | 2 |
| 751 | Leaves markedly discolorous | 14 |
| 752 | Leaves with veins markedly impressed above | 4 |
| 1007 | Ripe fruit black | 5 |
| 503 | Stipules interpetiolar | 5 |
| 103 | Stem winged | 15 |
| 714 | Leaves pedate | 4 |
| 756 | Leaf base asymmetric | 2 |
| 754 | Leaves with a fissure on the underside of the lamina | 6 |
| 747 | Leaf base cordate | 30 |
| 1104 | Seeds with floss (long cottony hairs) | 16 |
| 17 | Biennials | 3 |
| 1102 | Seeds with long hairs | 15 |
| 507 | Stipules auriculate, amplexicaul or semi-amplexicaul | 2 |
| 749 | Leaves with black dots | 5 |
| 918 | Corolla hairy | 1 |
| 202 | Orange-brown sap | 1 |
| 510 | Stipules conspicuous | 4 |
| 11 | Bearing hardened petioles | 1 |
| 1015 | Fruit pendulous | 5 |
| 302 | Aromatic? E.g. labiatae | 2 |
| 904 | Corolla / petals fimbriate/2-fid | 1 |
| 915 | Calyx circumscissile | 11 |
| 748 | Leaves with auricles | 4 |
| 728 | Leaves bullate | 1 |
| 703 | Leaves alternate in families with generally opposite leaves | 2 |
| 406 | Hairs with bulbous bases | 2 |
| 504 | Stipules (or pseudostipules) present in families generally without stipules | 4 |
| 405 | Hooked hairs | 1 |
| 914 | Calyx winged | 1 |
| 1006 | Ripe fruit yellow | 4 |
| 1017 | Fruits beaked | 14 |
| 919 | Calyx spathaceous | 4 |
| 105 | Stem absent or very short, with a basal rosette, the flowers borne on peduncles | 5 |
| 509 | Stipules bifid or with 2 lobes | 7 |
| 508 | Stipules fimbriate or laciniate | 2 |
| 1003 | Ripe fruit blue | 4 |
| 806 | Inflorescence partly or wholly enclosed within an involucre | 1 |
| 403 | Y-shaped (or forked) hairs | 1 |
| 26 | Plant a mangrove | 7 |
| Total | | 8450 |