Herbaceous annual, stems 30 cm high, tomentose and with abundant yellowish hairs. Opposite leaves with short petioles, ovate to lanceolate laminae, almost always rhombiform, 1 to 3 cm long, rounded base, acute apex, serrated margins, almost always with red or purple spots. Terminal and axillary inflorescences, pedunculate, with small purple glands. Capsules from 1 to 1.2 mm long, pubescent-strigose.

Herbaceous or subshrub of up to 80 cm, with milky white latex. Opposite obovate, elliptic or oblong leaves, 3 to 7 cm long. Sessile flowers, white or pink, with 5 petals joined by the base forming a tube with free lobes, solitary or in groups in the axils of the leaves. Trilobular fruit, pubescent, containing 2 to 3 black seeds, about 0.5 cm in diameter.

Tree up to 25 m tall. Simple elliptic-lanceolate leaves, up to 12 cm, acuminate. White flowers, with red lines, yellow inside, petals of 1 cm. Very narrow and long capsule, up to 60 cm, sometimes more and 3 mm wide; feathery-pubescent seeds.

Tree of up to 20 m in height, smooth greyish bark. Composite glabrous leaves, over 35 cm; 4 to 8 pairs of folioles, oblong, obovate or rounded, 7 to 20 cm, glabrous, with a shiny bright green upper surface, pale on the underside, chartaceous. Yellow flowers grouped in bright and colourful axillary racemes; rounded sepals; yellow petals of 1.5 cm, with prominent dark veins. Fruit, subcylindrical, woody, brown - ochre pod, 8 to 15 cm. 

Brown seeds, flattened, covered with a sticky pulp.

Small tree with a single stem, rarely ramified, leafy at the top. Large leaves of 20 to 60 cm, usually palmate, 7-lobed. Male staminate flowers in panicles of 10 cm or more; female flowers with yellow corolla, spiral petals. Globose or subglobose fruit up to 30 cm in diameter, yellow or orange, with milky juice; numerous black seeds.

Shrub or tree of 3 to 10 m. Leaves obovate to elliptical or ovate, 6.5 to 16 cm long and 3 to 8 cm wide, with trichomes on the upper and lower side, persistent or deciduous. Flowers arranged in 6 to 20 cm long inflorescences, pseudo-racemose; revolute sepals, sericeous adaxially and tomentose abaxially; yellow petals turning orange or red with age. Fruit in the form of drupes from 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, glabrous green and yellow when ripe.