Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs, scandent, prostrate or suberect. Leaves simple, usually oblong or linear, occasionally ovate or reniform, often with a dorsal, basal spur. Inflorescences with male flowers in few-flowered cymes; female flowers paired to solitary. Male flowers: sepals 4, cuneate-obovate, sometimes white-woolly; petals 4, connate into saucer-shaped corolla; stamens 4-10, connate into a column, expanded and peltate above; anthers in a marginal ring on disc of staminal column, with transverse dehiscence. Female flowers: sepals 2; petals 2, opposite sepals; staminodes 0; carpel 1; style 0; stigma lobed. Drupe subovoid, sometimes curved by unequal development, with stigma towards base; endocarp horseshoe-shaped, with warty ridges, dorsal ridge absent; condyle narrowly obovate. Seed with endosperm not ruminate; embryo horseshoe-shaped; cotyledons appressed.
Distribution:
Species 2, dry regions of sthn Afr., widespread, Namibia, Botswana, the northern provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern and Western Cape.
Classification:
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