Description :

• Woody shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes glaucous
• Leaves tripinnatisect, often reduced to rachises and/or petioles which are sometimes long, simple and pine needle-like, with or without longitudinal grooves along upper sides
• Flowers in compound, bracteate umbels
• Calyx with short, triangular teeth or linear, acute lobes
• Petals broadly ovate, inflexed at apex, keeled on inner face
• Disc conical
• Styles shorter or longer than petals
• Stamens ± as long as petals
• Fruit somewhat elliptic, crowned with persistent disc and styles, smooth, rugose or tuberculate but not ribbed or winged; mericarps flat on face, convex on back, a single oil duct in each of 4 furrows and 2 on face, rarely 8-12 around each seed; carpophore bipartite
• Seeds semiterete

Nomenclature:

• Anginon Raf.
  • Rafinesque: 56 (1840)
  • Sonder: 540 (1862) under Rhyticarpus
  • Schreiber: 8 (1967) as Sonderina streyi
  • Burtt: 90 (1988)
  • Burtt: 172 (1991)
  • Van Wyk et al.: 511 (1997)
  • Allison & Van Wyk: 561 (1997)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 12, S Namibia, Northern and Western to Eastern Cape