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Climbing shrubs or lianes. Leaves opposite. Stipules interpetiolar, without a keeled lobe. Inflorescences pedunculate, branched cymes. Flowers 4-6-merous. Calyx: tube ellipsoid to ovoid; limb dentate. Corolla white, cream or yellow with a cylindric tube and reflexed lobes. Anthers exserted but not reflexed. Ovary 2-locular; ovule 1 per loculus. Fruit a 2-seeded drupe, ± 2-lobed and flattened. Derivation of name: after Johan Diederich Möhr Keet, 1882-1976, a South African forester and plant collector. Worldwide: 40 species in tropical and South Africa. Zambia: 3 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson | N,W,C | Nw,Cb,Lp,N,Mc,C | Description, Image |
| venosa (Oliv.) Bridson | B,N,W,C,S | Nw,Lp,N,C,Lk,S | Description, Image |
| zanzibarica (Klotzsch) Bridson subsp. cornelioides (De Wild.) Bridson | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,N,E,Lk,S,W |
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