Low-growing suffrutices. Leaves ovate, petiolate. Flowers yellow. Epicalyx of 3 linear bracts. Ovary of 10 free, 1-ovulate carpels. Style branches 10, filiform. Fruit discoid, of 10 indehiscent, 1-seeded mericarps. Seeds reniform.
Worldwide: 14 species in tropical and warm areas
Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.