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Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers. Leaves opposite, whorled, subopposite or rarely alternate, usually entire; petiole sometimes persisting and forming a ± hooked spine. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 4-5-merous. Calyx 4-5 (rarely more). Petals usually 4-5, variously coloured. Stamens twice as many as petals, in 1 or 2 series. Ovary inferior. Fruit 4-5-winged. A generally recognisable genus but Schrebera trichoclada in leaf looks very similar. The flowers of many species resemble those of willows (Salix species), hence their common name of Bushwillow. Worldwide: 250 species in the tropics, excluding Australia Zambia: 33 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| acutifolium Exell | N,W | Nw,N | |
| adenogonium Steud. ex A. Rich. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,Cb,N,E,Lk,S | Description, Image |
| albopunctatum Suess. | B,S | S,W | |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. apiculatum | B,N,C,E,S | N,E,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. leutweinii (Schinz) Exell | E | E | |
| aureonitens Engl. & Gilg | N | Lp | |
| celastroides Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. celastroides [LR-lc] | B,N,W,C,S | Nw,Lp,N,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| celastroides Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. laxiflorum (Welw. ex M.A. Lawson) Exell [LR-lc] | B,W | Nw | Description, Image |
| collinum Fresen.[Agg] | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,N,E,C,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| elaeagnoides Klotzsch | B,C,E,S | E,C,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| engleri Schinz | |||
| gillettianum Liben [NrEnd] | N | N | Description, Image |
| gossweileri Exell | B,N,W | Nw,N | |
| hereroense Schinz subsp. hereroense | B,C,S | Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| imberbe Wawra | B,N,S | Mc,S,W | Description, Image |
| kirkii M.A. Lawson | S | Lk,S | Description |
| microphyllum Klotzsch | N,C,E,S | Mc,E,Lk,S | Description, Image |
| molle R.Br ex G. Don | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,Lp,E,Lk | Description, Image |
| mossambicense (Klotzsch) Engl. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Cb,N,E,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| mweroense Baker [End][VU] | N | Mc | Description, Image |
| obovatum F. Hoffm. | N,C,E,S | N,C,Lk,S | Description, Image |
| padoides Engl. & Diels[DD] | C | Lk | Description, Image |
| paniculatum Vent. | N | N | Description, Image |
| pentagonum M.A. Lawson | N | N | |
| platypetalum M.A.Lawson subsp. baumii (Engl. & Gilg) Exell | N,W | Nw,Cb | |
| platypetalum Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. oatesii (Rolfe) Exell | N | N | Description, Image |
| platypetalum Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. platypetalum | B,N,W,C,S | Nw,N,C,S,W | |
| platypetalum M.A.Lawson subsp. virgatum (Welw. ex M.A. Lawson) Exell | N | N | |
| psidioides Welw.[Agg] | B,N,W,C,E,S | N | Description, Image |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. psidioides | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,Cb,Lp,Mc,E,C,Lk,W | Description |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. psilophyllum Wickens | N | N | Description |
| schumannii Engl. | B,N,S | N,S,W | |
| zeyheri Sond. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,Cb,Mc,E,C,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
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