Shrub or small tree, erect or
straggling. Flowers solitary, axillary, sessile. Bracteoles 4-5, persistent. Calyx entire and completely enclosing the petals
in bud, splitting into 3 sepals. Petals 6, in two whorls, free. Stamens numerous, cuneate-quadrate.
Carpels 6-10, free. Ripe carpels indehiscent, cylindric, stipitate, succulent. Seed vertical; aril 0. Worldwide: 1 species in eastern and south-eastern tropical Africa Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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