7009.000 Argyreia Lour.

Shrubs, scandent or lianas, stems woody. Leaves petiolate lamina margins entire, abaxially, sometimes silvery sericeous. Inflorescence cymes, or loose or compact capitula, few to many flowered, axillary, rarely terminal. Sepals persistent, herbaceous or leathery, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous and often red; corolla purple, red, pink or white, campanulate, funnelform or tubular; limb sub-entire to deeply five lobed. Fruit berries, red, purplish, orange or yellowish; fleshy, mealy or leathery. Seeds 4 or fewer.

Worldwide: 90 species from Indomalesia to Australia

Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon.