Hippobromus Eckl. & Zeyh.

Tree, with resin. Leaves alternate, pinnate; rhachis more or less winged; leaflets sessile, sub-opposite; margins serrate or entire. Flowers dimorphic, subglobose, velvety, in dense panicles. Sepals 5, unequal. Petals 5, shorter than sepals, without scales. Disc thick. Ovary sub-globose, 3-locular. Fruit globose, obscurely 3-lobed; seeds flattened without an aril.

Derivation of name: hippos-, horse and -bromos, stench, referring to the leaves with a similarly unpleasant smell as those of the unrelated Clausena anisata (Rutaceae), a plant known in Afrikaans as "perdepis" or horse urine.

Worldwide: Monotypic with one species in Southern Africa.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.