Small trees, shrubs, often climbing or lianes. Flowers solitary or in condensed cymes, extra-axillary; peduncles hooked or zigzag. Bracts and bracteoles small, caducous. Sepals 3. Petals 6, in two whorls, free. Stamens numerous, oblong or wedge-shaped. Carpels 6-numerous, free. Ripe carpels indehiscent, cylindric or ellipsoid, stipitate, succulent. Seeds vertical; aril 0. Worldwide: 100 species in the Old World tropics Zambia: 4 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| brachypetalus Benth. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| collinus Hutch. [NrEnd] | N | Description |
| monteiroae Oliv. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| stolzii Diels | E |