Description:
Shrubs or trees. Leaves petiolate, oblong-elliptic, acuminate to caudate-acuminate, base cuneate to +/- cordate, domatia present or absent; stipules narrowly triangular, +/- attenuate. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered, usually borne on a very short shoot above a single leaf; pedicels short to almost absent. Calyx tubular, lobes 5, varying in length. Corolla with a slender, pubescent tube, often split along one side, and 5 abruptly spreading lobes. Stamens 5; anthers sessile, linear, usually medifixed, at least partly exserted. Ovary 2-locular, each locule with a pendulous placenta with 2-10 embedded ovules; style filiform or elongate-clavate, glabrous or rarely pubescent, undivided or shortly bilobed at apex. Fruit fleshy, subglobose, 1- to several-seeded, crowned by cylindric calyx limb. Seeds subglobose, with abundant endosperm.
Distribution:
Species 8, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola, Zambia.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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