Trees or shrubs with much the appearance of coffee plants. Leaves paired; stipules elliptic, lanceolate or triangular, often tapering-subulate, deciduous. Flowers sessile in axillary fascicles; subtended by a series of bracteoles, the lowermost cupular, dimorphic. Calyx tube campanulate with 5 rounded imbricate lobes; corolla salver-shaped, the tube slender, somewhat narrowed at the base, appressed pubescent outside, glabrous at the throat, lobes 5, narrowly oblong, contorted to the right. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit stipitate, globose or ellipsoid-globose, 2-celled, with a leathery wall, marked at the apex with evident remains of the disk and calyx lobes. Seeds 2–4 per fruit, pendulous; endosperm horny. Testa present. Worldwide: Species 12, in western Africa.
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