Prostrate to erect suffrutices or shrubs, never climbing. Leaves small, entire, usually with medifixed hairs. Flowers 5-merous, axillary, solitary or aggregated into few-flowered clusters or pedunculate cymes. Sepals subequal or outer ones larger. Corolla small, funnel-shaped; limb shallowly lobed; mid-petaline areas hairy. Ovary 2-locular, 4-ovulate. Styles 2, quite or almost separate, not forked. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds glabrous. Worldwide: 20 species, mainly African, extending to Arabia and India Botswana: 3 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| capensis (E.Mey. ex Choisy) Hallier f. | SE | |
| suffruticosa (Schinz) Hallier f. var. suffruticosa | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| suffruticosa (Schinz) Hallier f. var. hirsutissima Hallier f. | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |