Subshrubby herbs, shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or rarely in whorls of 3, usually glabrous. Stipules sometimes united into a sheath. Flowers 4-5-merous, heterostylous, in branched terminal panicles. Calyx tube ribbed; lobes triangular or linear. Buds and corolla lobes often with longitudinal narrow wing-like keels. Corolla white, pink or purple; tube cylindric. Ovary 2-locular; ovule solitary in each loculus, erect from the base. Fruits succulent, with 2 pyrenes; pyrenes opening by 1 dorsal slit. Worldwide: 42 species in the Old World tropics, especially Madagascar Mozambique: 4 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| colorata J.E. Burrows[End][EN] | N | |
| parvifolia K. Schum. | Z,MS | Description, Image |
| subochreata (De Wild.) Robyns | N | |
| umbraticola Vatke | N |