Description :

• Trees, dioecious; indumentum of simple hairs
• Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire
• Flowers unisexual; in axillary thyrses
• Calyx cupuliform, 5-toothed
• Petals 5, imbricate
• Stamens 11 or 12; filaments connate at base up to two-thirds of their length; anthers puberulous, dorsifixed; staminodes 12
• Disc annular, crenulate, partly fused to base of ovary or pistillode
• Ovary ovoid, slightly (4)5-lobed, (4)5-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule, hirsute; pistillode conical at base, cylindric, 3-locular; style short; stigma capitate
• Fruit a loculicidal capsule with 4 or 5 thick, woody valves bearing branched, anther-like appendages outside
• Seeds small, partly covered by a bright red aril

Nomenclature:

• Pseudobersama Verdc.
  • Verdcourt: 504 (1956)
  • White & Styles: 304 (1963)
  • White & Styles: 57 (1986)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : Species 1: Pseudobersama mossambicensis (Sim) Verdc., tropical to subtropical E Africa
• Southern Africa : Northernmost KwaZulu-Natal