6632.010 Cascabela Raf.

Hairless shrubs or small trees. Leaves spirally arranged. Flowers usually yellow, less often apricot, orange or white, borne in terminal pedunculate cymes. Calyx with glands inside at base. Corolla funnel-shaped; tube cylindric; limb campanulate with 5 hairy scales at throat. Disk 0. Ovary 2-lobed and 2-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Fruit a fleshy drupe.

Worldwide: 6 species from Mexico to tropical South America.

Malawi: 1 cultivated taxon.