Prostrate or scandent herbs with tuberous rootstock. Leaves simple, petiolate. Tendrils simple or 2-fid. Inflorescence few to many in axillary racemes or fascicles, usually pedunculate; flowers small, yellowish; receptacle-tube campanulate, lobes usually small; corolla-lobes 5, united below. Fruit solitary, small to medium-sized, succulent, cylindric-fusiform to globose, often rostrate, red, indehiscent or dehiscent by a longitudinal slit. Seeds asymmetrically ovoid or subglobose, small.
Worldwide: 25 species in Old World tropics, mostly Africa. Botswana: 6 taxa. |
![Kedrostis foetidissima](https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/157070-27-t.jpg) |