Vangueriella

Straggling or scandent shrubs; branches (and sometimes stout spines?) in whorls of 3. Leaves in whorls of 3 (or sometimes paired?), petiolate, oblong, apex sharply acuminate; stipules with triangular base with subulate, eventually deciduous appendage. Inflorescences axillary, +/- many-flowered distichous cymes. Flowers bisexual, small to medium-sized; bracts small or scarcely developed; buds lanceolate or cylindric, acute. Calyx: tube campanulate, adpressed-pubescent; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla: tube campanulate or cylindric; lobes oblong, usually shorter than tube. Stamens: anthers small, half-exserted, ovate or ovate-lanceolate; filaments very short. Disc glabrous. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 1 per locule, pendulous; style shortly exserted, cylindric to narrowly obconic; stigmatic club crown- or mitre-shaped, 2-lobed at apex. Fruit compressed bilobed, containing 2 pyrenes and crowned by calyx limb.