Description :

• Shrubs or small trees
• Leaves opposite or 3- or 4-nate; axillary glands few, minute; stipules 0
• Inflorescence a terminal corymb
• Flowers small, fragrant
• Calyx small, eglandular within; sepals 5, free, ovate-elliptic, imbricate
• Corolla salver-shaped; tube cylindric, much longer than calyx, scarcely widened above middle, without appendages, pilose within; lobes shorter than tube, overlapping to the left
• Stamens 5, included, inserted ± middle of corolla tube; filaments short, filiform; anthers 4-locular, longer than filaments, lanceolate, acute
• Disc 0
• Ovary of 2 free carpels; style shorter than corolla tube, terete; stigma at level of anthers, somewhat thickened, ovate, 2-lobed at apiculate apex; ovules many in each locule, multiseriate
• Mericarps 2, follicular, coriaceous, oblong or linear-oblong, apiculate, subterete, straight or slightly curved
• Seeds flat, broadly cuneate or subrectangular, winged at each end

Nomenclature:

• Gonioma E.Mey.
  • Meyer 188 (1838)
  • Stapf: 503 (1907)
  • Codd: 262 (1963)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 1, Gonioma kamassi E.Mey., in Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape