BINIA Noronha ex Thouars
CAMPANOLEA Gilg & G.Schellenb.
CHIONANTHUS sensu auct. non L.
DEKINDTIA Gilg
LINOCIERA Swartz
POGENDA Raf.
Trees and shrubs, evergreen. Leaves opposite, simple, entire. Domatia present (in ours). Inflorescences consist of axillary, paniculate cymes or fascicles. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx deeply lobed. Corolla with a very short tube and linear lobes, lobes strongly concave, with incurved margins and hooded apex. Stamens 2. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe. Comment: African and Madagascan species, formerly placed in a broadly defined genus Chionanthus, are now placed here. Chionanthus s.s. is now confined to Tropical South America. Worldwide: 106 species in Tropical Africa, Southern Africa and Madagascar. DRC: 4 taxa. |
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| Species | Botanical divisions | Content |
| africana (Knobl.) Hong-Wa & Besnard | VI,VII,VIII,IX | Description |
| congesta (Baker) Jongkind | III,IV,V,VI | Description |
| mildbraedii (Gilg & G.Schellenb.) Hong-Wa & Besnard | III,V,VII,VIII,IX,XI | |
| nilotica (Oliv.) Hong-Wa & Besnard | VI,XI | Description |