Dioecious shrubs with simple hairs, without milky latex. Buds bearing persistent protective scales. Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple, gland-toothed. Male flowers: calyx closed in bud, splitting later into 3-4 valvate lobes; petals 0. Female flowers: calyx 2-4-partite; petals 0; ovary 2-3-locular. Fruit of 1-3 dehiscent cocci. Seeds subspherical bearing a scarlet aril. Worldwide: 50 species in tropical and South Africa and southern Arabia. Zambia: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angolensis (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. | B,W | |
| atrovirens (Pax) Prain | N | |
| menyharthii (Pax) Prain | B,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| trichogyne (Müll. Arg.) Prain var. trichogyne | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| trichogyne (Müll.Arg.) Prain var. psilogyne Radcl.-Sm. [NrEnd] | E | Description |
| welwitschiana (Müll.Arg.) Prain | N,W |