Biennial, perennial or sometimes annual, succulent herbs. Leaves usually opposite and decussate, connate at the base, the lower set close together; uppermost bract-like; lamina entire or rarely pinnatifid; margin entire, crenate or serrate. Inflorescence terminal, composed of cymes arranged in a panicle, corymb or thyrse. Flowers 4-merous, erect, relatively large and showy. Corolla lobes united below into a tetragonous tube, this rounded and swollen at the base and usually constricted above; lobes usually apiculate. Stamens 8. Carpels 4, ± connate at base. Nectariferous scales semi-circular to linear. Worldwide: 125 species (incl. Bryophyllum) in the Old World tropics, especially Africa and Madagascar. Mozambique: 16 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| brachyloba Welw. ex Britten | MS,GI,M | Image |
| elizae Berger [NrEnd] | N,Z | Description, Image |
| fernandesii Raym.-Hamet [End] | N | |
| hametiorum Raym.-Hamet [End] | N,Z | |
| humilis Britten | N,Z | |
| laciniata (L.) DC. | T | |
| lanceolata (Forssk.) Pers. | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| lateritia Engl. | N,Z,MS,GI | |
| latisepala N.E. Br. | N | |
| leblanciae Raym.-Hamet | MS,GI,M | |
| luciae Raym.-Hamet subsp. luciae | MS | Description, Image |
| paniculata Harv. | M | |
| rotundifolia (Haw.) Haw. | Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| sexangularis N.E. Br. var. sexangularis | GI,M | |
| sexangularis N.E. Br. var. intermedia (R. Fern.) R. Fern. | MS | |
| velutina Welw. ex Britten subsp. chimanimaniensis (R. Fern.) R. Fern. [NrEnd] [LR-nt] | MS | Description, Image |