Oedina Tiegh.

Shrubs extending to 2 m or more; hairs stellate and dendritic; twigs slightly compressed to angular, soon terete. Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite, rarely clustered, shortly petiolate. Flowers in racemes or spikes from axils and older nodes, few–many-flowered; bract small, unilateral. Calyx saucer-shaped to tubular, entire to shortly toothed; corolla joined up to halfway, 5-lobed, radially symmetrical to slightly zygomorphic, yellow to red without any marked colour-banding, lobes usually erect. Fruit a berry, blue-green, ovoid-ellipsoid. Seed orange to red.

Worldwide: Four species in Tanzania and Malawi.

Zambia: 1 taxon.