Shrub or tree with white latex. Branchlets dotted with paler lenticels. Leaves opposite, long-petiolate. Inflorescence thyrsoid, terminal and in upper
axils; bracts obscure. Flowers actinomorphic (except for sometimes
unequal sepals). Sepals ovate, acute. Corolla salver-shaped; tube
± cylindric, weakly gibbous in upper half and constricted
at mouth; lobes overlapping to the left. Stamens inserted near middle of corolla tube. Ovary of 2 basally connate carpels. Fruit composed of two obliquely oblong follicles; outside dotted with paler lenticels. Seeds laterally flattened, obliquely oblong, long-winged at
apex. Worldwide: 1 species in tropical and South Africa Caprivi: 1 taxon. |
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