Noronhia Stadman ex Thouars

BINIA Noronha ex Thouars

CAMPANOLEA Gilg & G.Schellenb.

CHIONANTHUS sensu auct. non L.

DEKINDTIA Gilg

LINOCIERA Swartz

POGENDA Raf.

Description of the genus

Trees and shrubs, evergreen. Leaves opposite, simple, entire. Domatia present (in ours). Inflorescences consist of axillary, paniculate cymes or fascicles. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx deeply lobed. Corolla with a very short tube and linear lobes, lobes strongly concave, with incurved margins and hooded apex. Stamens 2. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe.

Comment: African and Madagascan species, formerly placed in a broadly defined genus Chionanthus, are now placed here. Chionanthus s.s. is now confined to Tropical South America.

Worldwide: 106 species in Tropical Africa, Southern Africa and Madagascar.

Rwanda: 1 taxon.

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Species		Content
mildbraedii (Gilg & G.Schellenb.) Hong-Wa & Besnard

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