Shrub or small tree. Leaves opposite.
Flowers in axillary cymes. Calyx lobes 5, erect. Corolla tube cylindric; lobes linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Ovary 2-locular;
stigmatic club cylindric. Fruit rounded or flattened, with 2 pyrenes. Worldwide: 4 species in tropical Africa Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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