Hunteria Roxb.

Trees, shrubs and lianes. Latex present. Spines and tendrils absent. Stipules absent. Stems and leaves completely glabrous. Inflorescences cymose, terminal, rarely also axillary; pedicels present, up to 1 cm. long. Calyx glabrous; lobes free to base, herbaceous, imbricate, not revolute; scales present, covering part of the ventral surface of sepals; corolla hypocrateriform, externally glabrous, internally hairy above and below stamens; tube not developing splits (as in Pleiocarpa); lobes contorted, overlapping to the left, not ciliate. Ovary glabrous, 2-carpellate, apocarpous, with 2-30 ovules per carpel. Fruit a compound berry; mericarps not beaked; seeds with smooth testa; endosperm horny.

Worldwide: 10 species, mainly in tropical Africa; one in SE Asia.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.