Cylicomorpha Urb.

Monoecious trees armed with short conical spines, all parts exuding abundant latex when wounded. Leaves palmately lobed. Inflorescences axillary, the male many-flowered panicles, the female of solitary flowers or short few-flowered racemes. Male flowers: calyx cupuliform, obsoletely 3–5-denticulate; corolla tube cylindric, with 5 lobes shorter than the tube; female flowers: calyx cupuliform, entire; petals 5, free, oblong-acute, valvate; androecium absent; ovary ovoid, 5-locular, the numerous ovules borne at the outer angles of the dissepiments. Fruit a subpentagonal, 5-locular, many-seeded berry, the locules not filled with pulp. Seeds with fleshy testa ornamented with a prominent cristate keel and irregular longitudinal interrupted cristate ribs; endosperm copious.

Worldwide: 2 species in tropical Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.