1 "Plant parasitic on stem of woody host plant" Viscaceae 1 "Plant free-living, rooted in ground" 2 2 "Leaves fleshy, scale-like or linear to oblanceolate; catkins erect" 3 2 "Leaves non-fleshy, +- thin to leathery, with well-developed flat blades, generally wider; catkins erect to drooping" 4 3 "Leaves scale-like; distal stems +- fleshy, jointed" Chenopodiaceae 3 "Leaves linear to oblanceolate, +- cylindric; distal stems not jointed" "Sarcobataceae {Sarcobatus}" 4 "Leaves opposite" "Garryaceae {Garrya}" 4 "Leaves alternate" 5 5 "Leaf compound" 6 5 "Leaf simple" 7 6 "Plants dioecious, evergreen; staminate catkin-like inflorescence branched --- inflorescence resembles catkin when young, but is actually a branched panicle" "Anacardiaceae {Pistacia}" 6 "Plants monoecious, deciduous; staminate catkin unbranched" Juglandaceae 7 "Fruit capsule; seeds 3--many" 8 7 "Fruit dry or fleshy, indehiscent; seed generally 1" 9 8 "Ovary 3-lobed; seeds 3, without a tuft of hairs; stems brittle" "Euphorbiaceae {Acalypha}" 8 "Ovary unlobed; seeds several--many, each with a tuft of hairs; stems not brittle" Salicaceae 9 "Shrubs of +- saline desert habitats; leaves densely stellate-hairy or scaly-puberulent and +- glabrous in age" Chenopodiaceae 9 "Shrubs or trees, generally of moister habitats; leaves glabrous or variously hairy" 10 10 "Milky latex present; sepals of pistillate inflorescence enlarged and fleshy in fruit, ripening together with the ovaries as a spheric to ellipsoid or ovoid multiple fruit" Moraceae 10 "Milky latex 0; sepals 0 or if present, not becoming fleshy; ovaries ripening as individual drupes, nuts, or winged achenes" 11 11 "Leaf blade dotted with minute, bead-like, peltate resin glands, aromatic; stipules 0; staminate catkins short, densely flowered; sepals 0; fruit a papillate, wax-coated drupe, free of subtending bracts Or an achene enclosed between a pair of spongy bractlets" Myricaceae 11 "Leaf blade not dotted with minute, bead-like resin glands (except in some Betulaceae), generally not aromatic; stipules formed but generally early-deciduous; staminate catkins elongated, either +- flexible and drooping or stiff and spike-like; sepals present in staminate catkins (except _Corylus_ in Betulaceae); fruit a nut or winged achene" 12 12 "Fruits many, small, flattened, winged achenes, clustered in a cone-like fruit catkin; plant deciduous; pistillate flower calyx 0" Betulaceae 12 "Fruits 1--3, each a well-developed nut, subtended or surrounded by a husk-, cup-, or spiny, bur-like involucre; plant deciduous or evergreen; pistillate flower calyx fused to ovary, sepal tips surrounding style base" 13 13 "Fruit a nut enclosed in a tubular, husk-like involucre; involucral bractlets 2, papery; staminate catkins drooping, densely flowered, bractlets +- concealing flowers, sepals 0; deciduous shrub" "Betulaceae {Corylus}" 13 "Fruit a nut in a scaly cup-like involucre or 1--3 nuts enclosed in a spiny, bur-like involucre; involucral bractlets many, scaly or spiny; staminate catkins very slender and drooping or stiff and spike-like, bractlets inconspicuous, sepals present; deciduous or evergreen tree or shrub" Fagaceae