Tetracera L.

Shrubs, small trees or lianes with entire or denticulate often scabrous leaves; stipules absent or represented by a narrow wing adnate to the petiole. Flowers moderate or large in terminal cymes, racemes or panicles. Sepals 5, convex, imbricate, persistent and becoming leathery in fruit. Petals as many as the sepals or fewer, often emarginate. Stamens very numerous, dilated towards the apex, anther-thecae borne on the margins of the dilated connective parallel or divergent below. Carpels 3-5, free, each with a simple style; ovules few to many borne on the ventral suture of the carpel. Fruiting carpels brittle and woody or leathery when ripe, dehiscing along the ventral or along both sutures. Seeds few with a laciniate aril.

Comment: Two species in Zambia, T. masuiana, a suffrutex in northern miombo woodland, and T. alnifolia, a woody climber in gallery forest.

Zambia: 2 taxa.