Shrubs or small trees, occasionally suffrutices. Leaves opposite; lamina with bacterial nodules (easily visible as black dots when leaf is held up to the light). Flowers few-many, borne in corymbs, very lax to capitate. Bracts connate, stipule-like. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous. Corolla white to creamy or greenish. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a spherical drupe, in our species black and shining when ripe. Seeds 2, hemispheric. Derivation of name: Apparently this was a historic name given to plants of this genus in Malabar, a coastal region in southwestern India. Worldwide: 400 species in the Old World tropics. Rwanda: 12 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| bagshawei S.Moore | ||
| bequaertii De Wild. | ||
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. gardeniifolia | Description | |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. subtomentosa K.Schum. | Description | |
| oliveriana Hiern | ||
| pierlotii Bridson | ||
| ruwenzoriensis S.Moore | ||
| rwandensis Bridson | ||
| schumanniana F. Hoffm. ex K. Schum. | Description, Image | |
| ternifolia Hiern | ||
| troupinii Bridson | ||
| urundensis Bremek. |