Trees or shrubs. Stems usually 4-angled. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, (1-)3-7-foliolate. Cymes mostly dichasial, short and dense to open and spreading, bracts often well developed. Corolla white and/or coloured, mostly shades of blue, lilac or mauve, ± zygomorphic; limb spreading ± 2-lipped. Stamens 4, didynamous. Drupes fleshy; fruiting calyx usually accrescent, plate-like or cup-shaped. Worldwide: 250 species occurring in tropical and temperate regions Mozambique: 15 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| buchananii Baker ex Gürke | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
| carvalhi Gürke [NrEnd] | N | |
| doniana Sweet | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| ferruginea Schumach. & Thonn. | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| franceseana I.Darbysh. & Goyder [End] [EN] | N | |
| harveyana H. Pearson | M | |
| madiensis Oliv. subsp. milanjiensis (Britten) F. White | MS,M | Description, Image |
| mombassae Vatke | N,Z,T,MS,M | Description, Image |
| mossambicensis Gürke [NrEnd] | N | Description, Image |
| obovata E. Mey. | M | |
| patula E.A. Bruce | Z,GI,M | Description |
| payos (Lour.) Merr. | N,Z,T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| petersiana Klotzsch | T,MS | Description, Image |
| schliebenii Moldenke | T,MS | Description, Image |
| sp. A [NrEnd] | N |