Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate; lamina with opaque, dark-coloured glandular dots, mostly near the margin and brownish stellate hairs, particularly beneath. Flowers in a terminal, cymose panicle, bisexual.
Sepals 5. Petals 5. Ovary 5-locular with 1(-2)-ovulate loculi. Styles 5, free. Fruit a berry. Seeds with a fleshy,
glandular-punctate testa. Worldwide: 40-45 species from tropical Africa and Madagascar Malawi: 1 taxon. |
![Psorospermum febrifugum](https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/140410-3-t.jpg) |