Cuviera DC.

Small trees or shrubs, unarmed or sometimes spinose. Leaves opposite, often large, mostly ± oblong or elliptic, petiolate, usually coriaceous and persistent; stipules small, basally ± connate, often acuminate, deciduous. Inflorescence in subsessile or pedunculate many-flowered axillary cymes; bracts and bracteoles linear to lanceolate, often leaf-like and accrescent. Calyx tube obconic or turbinate; lobes 3–6, linear to ovate, often leaf-like and accrescent, mostly longer than the corolla, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate or barrel-shaped, hairy or bristly inside; lobes 5–6, spreading or reflexed, elongate, mostly caudate-acuminate, sometimes very markedly so. Fruit drupaceous, often large, ovoid,with 1–5, 1-seeded pyrenes.

Worldwide: About 20 species in West and Central Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.