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Erect or scrambling or twining, monoecious (rarely dioecious) perennial herbs or shrubs, with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, often cordate. Flowers in racemes, usually mostly male with 1-2 females at the base. Bracts conspicuous, persistent. Petals 0. Male flowers with 3 sepals and 3 stamens. Female flowers with 3 or 6 pinnate or palmate sepals, becoming enlarged in fruit. Ovary 3-locular. Worldwide: 100 species in tropical and warm areas Zambia: 13 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| angolensis Müll.Arg. | W,C,S | Cb,Lk,S | |
| benthamii Baker | B,N,S | N,S,W | |
| brevipes Pax | B,N,W,E,S | Cb,N,E,S,W | Description, Image |
| descampsii De Wild. | S | C | |
| kirkiana Müll. Arg. | W | Cb | Description, Image |
| lasiophylla Pax & K.Hoffm. | B,N | N,W | |
| lukafuensis De Wild. | N,W | Cb,Lp,N | |
| micromeres Radcl.-Sm. [VU] | N | Lp | |
| okanyua Pax | B,W,C,E,S | Cb,E,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| petiolaris Radcl.-Sm. | B,N,W | Cb,N,W | |
| prostrata Radcl.-Sm. [VU] | N | N | |
| rhodesiae Pax | W,C | Cb | |
| stipularis Radcl.-Sm. | S | S |
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