Chenolea Thunb.

Perennial herbs, sometimes thinly woody below more or less densely silky-hairy. Leaves more or less fleshy, entire, alternate, sessile, narrow but not scale-like. Flowers axillary, solitary or sometimes up to 3 together, sessile, subtended by a minute bidentate cupule but without bracteoles. Perianth 5-lobed, the lobes each developing in fruit dorsally a low blunt pyramidal horn without any wings. Fruit with membranous pericarp. Seeds “horizontal” (i.e. vertically compressed); testa apparently thinly crustaceous, endosperm absent.

Worldwide: Species 4 in southern Africa and the Mediterranean.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.