Small hemisparasitic shrubs with simple hairs and a single haustorial attachment. Flowers in axillary umbels; bract saucer-shaped with well-developed foliaceous limb. Corolla 5-merous; opening unilaterally; tube short; lobes coherent above, inrolled at anthesis. Filaments thickened and inrolled above. Derivation of name: after the British botanist Daniel Oliver, 1830-1916, who worked at Kew and was a Professor of botany at University College, London. Worldwide: 3 species in eastern and south-central Africa. Mozambique: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| hildebrandtii (Engl.) Tiegh. | N | |
| rubroviridis Tiegh. | T,MS | Description, Image |