Shrubs, glabrous, with white latex; branches unarmed, lenticellate; trunk dichotomously branched
Leaves decussate, those of a pair equal or unequal, subsessile or petiolate; petiole with colleters at base; stipules intrapetiolar
Inflorescences 1 or 2 in forks of branches, pendulous, pedunculate, congested, cymose; bracts with colleters
Flowers often fragrant
Sepals connate at extreme base only, imbricate, much shorter than corolla, inside with 1-4 rows of minute glands near base
Corolla tube carnose, glabrous except for pilose ridges leading downward from base of filaments inside; tube cylindrical in lower part, wider in upper part and there cylindrical or infundibuliform; lobes membranous, obtriangular, oblique, with 2 apices, 1 acute, 1 rounded
Stamens included, connivent in a cone; filaments shorter than anthers; anthers 4-locular, glabrous, auriculate at base, 2-celled
Ovary glabrous; carpels connate at very base only; disc present; style slender, style head 5-winged; stigma small
Fruit berry-like, semisyncarpous, several-seeded, thin-walled
Southern Africa: Species 1: Callichilia orientalis S.Moore, N KwaZulu-Natal
References:
BEENTJE, H.J. 1978. A revision of Callichilia Stapf (Apocynaceae). Mededeelingen van de Landbouwhogeschool, Wageningen 78,7
BEENTJE, H.J. 1985. Apocynaceae: Callichilia and Strophanthus. Flora zambesiaca 7,2
CODD, L.E. 1963. Apocynaceae. Flora of southern Africa 26
MARKGRAF, F. 1923. Apocynaceae. Notizblatt des königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin 74
PICHON, M. 1948. Apocynaceae. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 27
STAPF, O. 1902. Apocynaceae. Flora of tropical Africa 4,1
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