Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs, glabrous. Leaves alternate, subsessile, elliptic or lanceolate. Flowers pedicelled, in few-flowered, terminal umbels. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed; tube cylindric, ribbed; lobes ovate, spreading, shorter than tube. Petals 0. Stamens 8-10, in 2 whorls arising from upper portion of calyx tube; anthers subsessile, linear, slightly curved. Disc surrounding ovary cup-shaped, entire or irregularly lobed. Ovary shortly stipitate, 2(3)-locular, glabrous or hairy on upper part; style terete, as long as ovary; stigma capitate or +/- saucer-shaped. Fruit fleshy, +/- the size of a pea. Seeds with papery testa.
Distribution:
Species +/- 10, tropical and SE Africa and 1 (endemic) on Madagascar; 1 in sthn Afr.: Peddiea africana Harv., in Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape near Komga.
Classification:
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