Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Stipules glabrous inside. Inflorescence of umbellate or branched cymes. Flowers 4-5-merous. Calyx tube broad; the limb reduced to a rim. Corolla white or yellow; lobes reflexed. Style usually at least twice as long as the corolla tube; pollen-presenter cylindric. Ovary 2-locular. Derivation of name: from the Greek psydrax, blister or bump, perhaps referring to the bumps on the leaf upper surface above the domatia or alternatively to the warty seeds of some species. Worldwide: 100 species in the Old World tropics. Mozambique: 13 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| fragrantissima (K.Schum.) Bridson [NrEnd] | M | |
| kaessneri (S. Moore) Bridson | N | |
| kraussioides (Hiern) Bridson | Z,MS | Description, Image |
| livida (Hiern) Bridson | N,Z,T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| locuples (K. Schum.) Bridson | GI,M | |
| martinii (Dunkley) Bridson | ||
| micans (Bullock) Bridson [NrEnd] | N,Z,MS | |
| moggii Bridson [End] | N,MS,GI,M | |
| obovata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Bridson subsp. elliptica Bridson | MS | |
| obovata (Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh.) Bridson subsp. obovata | GI,M | |
| parviflora (Afzel.) Bridson subsp. chapmanii Bridson | N,Z,MS | |
| schimperiana (A.Rich.) Bridson subsp. schimperiana | ||
| sp. A of Burrows et Al.: 931, 2018 | N |