Samples in the composition range Fe0.gsO-Feo.880 quenched from about 1000°C, have been studied by electron diffraction/microscopy with special emphasis on the dark-field technique. The set of morphologies obtained by quenching and annealing confirms a spinodal-like decomposition in an oxygen-rich and an almost stoichiometric component. The diffraction spots and dark-field images reveal a considerable degree of order which is enhanced upon heat treatment below 300°C. Previous diffraction studies have been interpreted in terms of an ordered phase with cubic symmetry. Dark-field microscopy, particularly at the symmetric composition, showed that the compositional fluctuation wave contained domains of tetragonal or orthorhombic symmetry at a very early stage. The range of order was found to increase during decomposition. An ordered phase of orthorhombic symmetry developed in oxygen-rich samples. Superstructure spots could be indexed by an A-faced orthorhombic cell with dimensions five times the fundamental cell.Extinctions lead to the space group Abm2 and a periodic antiphase relation. Only four types of clusters, all of which are based on three connected defect tetrahedra, are then possible.