Shrubs or trees with milky latex.
Stipules 0. Leaves in whorls of 3-6. Inflorescences of terminal,
sometimes apparently lateral, umbellate or corymbose, cymes.
Calyx lobes connate at base only. Corolla salver-shaped (in
ours); tube cylindric; lobes overlapping to the left.
Stamens inserted above middle of corolla tube. Ovary composed of
2, free or partly to completely fused, carpels. Fruit either with
only 1 carpel developing and then subspherical or with 2 carpels
developing and then 2-lobed. Worldwide: c. 60 species in the tropics Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |