Unarmed shrubs. Leaves simple and entire, alternate. Flowers in axillary or terminal clusters. Calyx 5(-6)-toothed, not enlarging in fruit. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped (in ours) with 5(-6) reflexed lobes, c.1/4 as along as tube. Stamens arising at base of corolla tube. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a berry. Worldwide: 175 species in tropical America Mozambique: 4 cultivated taxa. |
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| Species | Content |
| aurantiacum Lindl. | Description, Image |
| laevigatum Schltdl. | |
| parqui L'Hér. | |
| × cultum Francey |