This subfamily is defined as those species having cluster roots, solitary ovules and indehiscent fruits. The fruit is indehiscent or dehiscence eventually circumscissile. Dry fruits can also be separated into dehiscent and indehiscent fruits. The fruit is dry, indehiscent, monocarpelar and monospermatic. The flower is pentamerous and ripens into an indehiscent fruit with numerous seeds. Fruits are dry loculicidal dehiscent (or sometimes indehiscent) capsule or a berry. The fruit is a nut, indehiscent, monosperm of hardened pericarp. The fruit is a small, indehiscent nut. The indehiscent fruit are large, egg-shaped capsules. Examples of species indehiscent fruit are sunflower seeds, nuts, and dandelions. The fruits are loculicidal capsules, indehiscent baccate fruits or sometimes pome-like. The fruit is an indehiscent samara, nut, or drupe. The plants are monoecious, or dioecious, and the fruits are indehiscent drupes or nuts. The fruit is fleshy, usually globose or ellipsoidal, and indehiscent. The seed pod may be straight, curved or curled, and either dehiscent or indehiscent.