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Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers. Leaves opposite, whorled, subopposite or rarely alternate, usually entire; petiole sometimes persisting and forming a ± hooked spine. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 4-5-merous. Calyx 4-5 (rarely more). Petals usually 4-5, variously coloured. Stamens twice as many as petals, in 1 or 2 series. Ovary inferior. Fruit 4-5-winged. A generally recognisable genus but Schrebera trichoclada in leaf looks very similar. The flowers of many species resemble those of willows (Salix species), hence their common name of Bushwillow. Worldwide: 250 species in the tropics, excluding Australia Malawi: 20 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adenogonium Steud. ex A. Rich. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. apiculatum | N,S | Description, Image |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. leutweinii (Schinz) Exell | S | |
| collinum Fresen.[Agg] | C,S | Description, Image |
| coriifolium Engl. & Diels | ? | |
| hereroense Schinz subsp. hereroense | S | Description, Image |
| imberbe Wawra | S | Description, Image |
| kirkii M.A. Lawson | S | Description |
| microphyllum Klotzsch | C,S | Description, Image |
| molle R.Br ex G. Don | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| mossambicense (Klotzsch) Engl. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| padoides Engl. & Diels | C,S | Description, Image |
| paniculatum Vent. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| pentagonum M.A. Lawson | C | |
| pisoniiflorum Engl. | S | Description, Image |
| platypetalum Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. oatesii (Rolfe) Exell | C,S | Description, Image |
| psidioides Welw.[Agg] | C,S | Description, Image |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. psidioides | C,S | Description |
| schumannii Engl. | S | |
| zeyheri Sond. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
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