Source:
SSA
Description:
Aerial, hemiparasitic, small to moderate-sized woody or succulent shrubs up to perhaps 0.5 m high, glabrous with mostly greyish to brownish stems. Leaves opposite-subopposite, broad to elongate, succulent to chartaceous. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary raceme, 15-40 mm long, 8-40-flowered. Flowers 4-merous, 5-15 ' 1-3 mm, whitish to reddish orange; pedicels short (1-3 mm). Corolla choripetalous; lobes reflexing from point where filaments arise. Filaments erect; anthers with or without locules. Style quadrangular or sometimes thickened basally. Berry rounded to ellipsoid, red to pink, smooth or warted. x = 9.
Distribution:
Species +/- 45, with 12 species in Africa south of the Sahara and the remaining in tropical Asia; 2 in sthn Afr., Northern Province, KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification:
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