Family: Bombacaceae

Habit: Small to large trees.

Leaves: Leaves simple or palmately compound, alternate; petioles with pulvini; lamina margins entire or lobed, secondary venation often palmate.

Stipules: Stipules usually caducous.

Inflorescence: Inflorescence terminal or axillary, solitary, racemose, or cymose.

Flowers: Flowers actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic, often large and showy; pedicels sometimes with bracteoles; sepals 5, connate below; petals 5, free, imbricate or convolute, often fused to base of staminal tube; stamens 5 to numerous, usually connate into small to large tube or appearing free; ovary superior, 2-5-locular; style 1, the stigma simple or lobed; placentation axile.

Fruit: Fruit a woody capsule or indehiscent fleshy or woody.

Seeds: Seeds small, numerous per fruit, and surrounded by matix of woolly hair, or large without matrix of hairs, or winged.

Notes: This family now included in the broader concept of Malvaceae of the Malvales.