Woody lianes, climbing shrubs or small trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Inflorescence a large many-flowered panicle. Flowers 5-merous. Sepals densely brown-hairy. Petals white.
Carpels 5, pilose. Fruit of 1-3 follicles, the follicles fulvo-tomentose. Seed with cup-shaped basal aril. Worldwide: 7 species in tropical Africa and Asia. Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |