Oliverella
Source:
SSA
Description:
Small, aerial, hemiparasitic shrubs, shortly hairy. Leaves opposite to alternate. Inflorescence a solitary, axillary, many-flowered umbel. Calyx rim-like. Corolla 5-merous, hairy, opening down one side; buds slightly curved, with ellipsoid apical swelling; tube green, short; lobes red, sometimes grey outside on upper part. Filaments arising on corolla lobes, filiform below, thickened above, inrolled; anthers 4-thecous, with small connective appendage. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry red, obovoid, with persistent calyx.
Distribution:
Species 3, eastern and south-central Africa in coastal and deciduous bushland and mixed woodland; 1 in sthn Afr.: Oliverella rubroviridis Tiegh., Botswana.