Mansoa DC.

Lianas with distally trifid tendrils, or simple tendrils with a terminal peltate disc. Pseudostipules well developed to inconspicuous. Leaves opposite, 2-3 foliate; lamina margins entire, glabrous or puberulent; petiole sometimes with a glandular field at apex. Inflorescence panicles, racemes or small corymbs, usually few flowered; axillary to distal leaves or leafless nodes. Flowersshowy, 5-lobed or margin truncate, often with plate-shaped glands on distal surface; corolla narrowly tubular at base, distally tubular-funnelform; white to reddish-purple. Fruit capsules, woody, linear-oblong; surface smooth or with elevated spines. Seeds flat with two thin wings or corky wingless.

Derivation of name: after the Brazilian botanist Antonio Luiz Patricio da Silva Manso, 1788-1848

Worldwide: 15 species in South America,

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.