Physotrichia Hiern

Biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves mostly basal with nearly bare stems. Flowers in terminal and lateral compound umbels. Sepals well developed, sometimes persisting on the mature fruit; petals obovate, apex incurved. Fruit elliptic to ovoid, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, covered with vesicular hairs especially on the ribs. Stylopodium conical, styles short and ± divergent. Ribs obtuse; vittae well developed, 1 in each interval and 2 in the commissural face. Carpophore divided to the base; seed concave on the commissural face.

Worldwide: Species 5, from Angola to Malawi.

Zambia: 3 taxa.