5992.000 Heteromorpha Cham. & Schltdl.

Small trees, shrubs and suffrutices. Leaves simple to 3-foliolate, less often pinnate with few leaflets. Inflorescence of lateral and terminal compound umbels. Bracts and bracteoles well-developed. Flowers appearing with the leaves. Calyx teeth triangular. Petals pale yellow to yellowish-green; apex inflexed. Fruit obovoid, slightly laterally flattened, hairless, with well-developed lateral wings.

Worldwide: 8 species, widely distributed in tropical and South Africa extending to Ethiopia and Yemen.

Caprivi: 1 cultivated taxon.