Usually shrubs, less often small trees. Leaves petiolate, sometimes with domatia, without bacterial nodules. Inflorescences axillary and opposite, sessile to subsessile, usually many-flowered and strongly contracted. Flowers (4-)5-9(-12)-merous, usually sweetly scented, sessile, bisexual. Calyx very variable. Corolla usually white, sometimes greenish, cream, or rose, salver-shaped. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit drupaceous. Worldwide: 95 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar DRC: 3 taxa. |
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| Species | Botanical divisions | Content |
| bagshawei S.Moore subsp. malaissei Robbr. | Description, Image | |
| coriacea (Benth.) Hiern subsp. nyassae (Hiern) Bridson | Description, Image | |
| longituba De Wild. subsp. richardsiae Bridson |