Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs or small trees, spinescent. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic or lanceolate; stipules small, subulate. Flowers in axillary, corymbose cymes. Calyx saucer-shaped, 4-toothed. Corolla 4-lobed, white, glabrous; lobes oblong, slightly longer than tube; tube campanulate, with deflexed hairs in throat. Stamens 4, arising in corolla mouth, exserted; filaments shorter than anthers. Disc annular, tumid. Ovary 3-locular, with a single pendulous ovule in each locule; style exserted; stigma subglobose, shortly 3-lobed. Fruit a subglobose drupe, usually with 1 locule aborted. Seeds +/- ellipsoid.
Distribution:
Species 2, tropical Africa; 2 in sthn Afr., Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification:
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