Micklethwaitia G.P. Lewis & Schrire

Small trees, deciduous. Leaves alternate or crowded on short shoots which later grow out, paripinnate; leaflets opposite, with short twisted petiolules; stipules intrapetiolar, early caducous. Inflorescence racemose, leaf-opposed on short shoots, rather few-flowered. Hypanthium shallowly cupular, much shorter than the sepals; sepals 4, reflexed at anthesis; petals 4–5, equalling or slightly longer than the stamens. Ovary 2-ovulate, the stipe partially fused to the walls of the hypanthium. Fruit pod asymmetrically narrowly obovate, ridged along each side of the upper suture, elastically dehiscent, apex long-acuminate.

Worldwide: One species in coastal forest of Mozambique.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.