Suffrutices, trees or shrubs. Inflorescence a terminal, many-flowered corymbose cyme. Receptacle gradually narrowed into a pedicel-like base above the articulation, distinctly prolonged beyond summit of ovary as an "upper receptacle". Calyx usually an indistinctly lobed rim-like extension to the upper receptacle. Petals 4, cohering and falling together as a calyptra. Filaments and style c.2 times as long as petals. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a berry. Derivation of name: joined together, presumably referring to the opposite leaves Worldwide: c. 1000 species in the tropics of the Old World Mozambique: 14 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| cordatum Hochst. ex C. Krauss | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| cordatum × guineense | Z,T,GI,M | |
| cumini (L.) Skeels | Z | Image |
| guineense (Willd.) DC. subsp. afromontanum F. White | Z,MS | Description, Image |
| guineense (Willd.) DC. subsp. afromontanum/barotsense | N,Z,MS | |
| guineense (Willd.) DC. subsp. afromontanum/masuk. pachy | MS | |
| guineense (Willd.) DC. subsp. guineense | N,Z,T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| guineense (Willd.) DC. subsp. huillense (Hiern) F. White | ?MS | Description, Image |
| guineense (Willd.) DC. subsp. macrocarpum (Engl.) F. White | Image | |
| jambos (L.) Alston | GI | Description, Image |
| komatiense Byng & Pahlad. [NrEnd] [CR] | M | |
| masukuense (Baker) R.E. Fr. subsp. pachyphyllum F. White | MS | |
| niassense Byng & J.E.Burrows [NrEnd] | N,Z,MS | |
| owariense (P. Beauv.) Benth. | N,Z | Image |