2419.000 Portulacaria Jacq.

Succulent, soft-wooded shrubs or small trees with stout branches. Leaves opposite, decussate, fleshy, obovate. Inflorescence axillary on the upper branches or along a single tall terminal stem; flowers in dense fascicles, pedicellate, each subtended by a small scale-like bract. Sepals 2, broadly ovate, persistent. Petals 4–5, connate at base. Ovary superior. Fruit indehiscent, thin-walled, 3-angled or 3-winged.

Worldwide: Three species in South Africa.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.