Small trees, shrubs, often climbing or lianes. Flowers solitary or in condensed cymes, extra-axillary; peduncles hooked or zigzag. Bracts and bracteoles small, caducous. Sepals 3. Petals 6, in two whorls, free. Stamens numerous, oblong or wedge-shaped. Carpels 6-numerous, free. Ripe carpels indehiscent, cylindric or ellipsoid, stipitate, succulent. Seeds vertical; aril 0. Worldwide: 100 species in the Old World tropics Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| brachypetalus Benth. | Description, Image |
| hexapetalus (L.f.) Bhandari |