Annual or perennial herbs with erect, prostrate or twining stems. Leaves variable, entire or lobed. Flowers axillary in 1-flowered cymes, sometimes subumbellate. Sepals 5, equal or subequal. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, pink or pinkish-purple, shallowly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included. Ovary 2-locular. Style 1, simple, filiform; stigmas 2, linear, about the same thickness as the styles, filiform. Capsule usually 4-valved. Seeds usually 4, black or brown, usually glabrous. Worldwide: c.250 species, mostly in temperate and subtropical regions; rare in the tropics Mozambique: 5 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| arvensis L. | M | |
| farinosus L. | GI,M | |
| goyderi J.R.I.Wood[End][DD] | N | |
| sagittatus Thunb. var. sagittatus | T | Description, Image |
| sagittatus Thunb. var. phyllosepalus Hallier f. | MS | Description, Image |