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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 Caprivi: 20 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | Content |
| albopunctatum Suess. | |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. apiculatum | Description, Image |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. leutweinii (Schinz) Exell | |
| celastroides Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. celastroides | Description, Image |
| collinum Fresen.[Agg] | Description, Image |
| elaeagnoides Klotzsch | Description, Image |
| engleri Schinz | |
| hereroense Schinz subsp. hereroense | Description, Image |
| imberbe Wawra | Description, Image |
| molle R.Br ex G. Don | Description, Image |
| mossambicense (Klotzsch) Engl. | Description, Image |
| oxystachyum Welw. ex M.A.Lawson | |
| platypetalum M.A.Lawson subsp. baumii (Engl. & Gilg) Exell | |
| platypetalum Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. oatesii (Rolfe) Exell | Description, Image |
| platypetalum Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. platypetalum | |
| psidioides Welw.[Agg] | Description, Image |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. dinteri (Schinz) Exell | Description |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. psidioides | Description |
| schumannii Engl. | |
| zeyheri Sond. | Description, Image |
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