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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves in pairs. Stipules produced into a narrow appendage at the apex. Inflorescences consisting of axillary cymes on opposite sides of the nodes. Calyx with 5 short, triangular, linear or oblong lobes. Corolla usually yellow, green, or greenish-yellow, densely hairy at throat; lobes 5, usually reflexed, sometimes with distinct narrow appendage at apex. Ovary 5-locular; ovule solitary in each loculus, pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, fleshy, ± spherical, glabrous. Worldwide: c. 15 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar Zambia: 8 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
apiculata K. Schum. | N,W | Nw,N | Description, Image |
cyanescens Robyns | B,W | Cb,W | Description, Image |
infausta Burch. subsp. infausta | N,W,C,E | Cb,Lp,E,C,Lk | Description, Image |
infausta Burch. subsp. rotundata (Robyns) Verdc. var. rotundata | N | N | |
infausta Burch. subsp. rotundata (Robyns) Verdc. var. campanulata (Robyns) Verdc. | E | Mc | |
proschii Briq. | B,C,E,S | Nw,N,E,C,S,W | Description, Image |
randii S. Moore subsp. randii | B,C,S | Cb,N,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
volkensii K.Schum. var. kyimbilensis (Robyns) Verdc. [DD] | E | Mc |
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