Small shrubs. Stipules with 3-5
linear setae. Leaves opposite or 3-nate. Flowers bisexual, dimorphic in
dense few-many-flowered terminal corymbose inflorescences. Calyx: tube
narrowly obconic; limb excentrically elliptic. Corolla:
tube narrowly cylindric; lobes 4-5 oblong or ovate; throat
densely hairy. Ovary 2-3-locular, each loculus with c.4-6 ovules.
Fruit indehiscent, obconic, sometimes curved, of bony texture,
strongly ribbed, the ribs running into the accrescent calyx,
1-2-seeded. Worldwide: 10 species in tropical Africa, Socotra and Madagascar Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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