Manostachya Bremek.

Woody-based herbs. Leaves sessile, linear or subulate, the upper gradually passing into bracts. Stipular sheath truncate. Inflorescence solitary or in axillary cymes arranged at many well-separated upper nodes in very open elongate spike-like inflorescences; bracteoles present. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate, 4-merous; calyx tube ovoid, limb tube not developed; teeth narrowly triangular; corolla tube short, obes about as long or slightly longer. Fruit a capsule subglobose, dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds few, brown, oblong, dorsiventrally compressed.

Worldwide: Three species in D.R. Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Angola and Tanzania.

Malawi: 1 taxon.