Carvalhoa K. Schum.

Shrub or small tree, repeatedly dichotomously branched and with 2 inflorescences in the forks when flowering, with white latex. Branchlets terete. Leaves opposite, those of a pair equal or unequal, shortly petiolate or sometimes sessile; petioles or leaf–bases of a pair united at the base; lamina elliptic, cuneate, rounded or subcordate at the base. Inflorescence pedunculate, corymbose, lax; bracts caducous before the flowers open. Flowers actinomorphic except for the slightly curved corolla tube; calyx pale green, persistent, even under the fruit; corolla white, creamy, or pale yellow, with many red longitudinal lines at the base of the lobes and at the apex of the tube; tube longer than the calyx; lobes spreading(?) or suberect in bud overlapping to the left. Ovary broadly ovoid, composed of 2 free carpels, surrounded by an entire disk, which is united with the distal sides of the ovary. Fruit 2 free carpels which usually both develop and which dehisce adaxially; wall soft, orange inside. Seeds surrounded by a darker orange pulpy aril, few, rather large, obliquely ellipsoid or ovoid; endosperm copious, starchy, creamy, surrounding the embryo.

Worldwide: 1 species in E and SE Africa.

Malawi: 2 taxa.