Herbs, suffrutices or small shrubs. Stipules connate, hairy within. Leaves opposite, rarely in whorls of 3. Flowers in axillary, often opposite, cymes or fascicles. Calyx with 5 linear to ovate lobes. Corolla green, greenish-yellow or -white; tube cylindric; lobes reflexed with a filiform appendage (in ours).
Ovary 3-5-locular with 1 pendulous ovule per loculus. Fruit spherical or obovoid with 2-5 pyrenes, crowned with calyx limb. Worldwide: 10 species in warm regions of Africa Mozambique: 3 taxa. |
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