Monoecious (rarely dioecious) shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, simple. Flowers small and axillary. Male flowers in many-flowered clusters, ± sessile: sepals and petals 5; filaments united in a column, free above. Female flowers in few-flowered clusters or solitary, sometimes pedicellate; styles 2. Ovary 2-locular (1-locular by abortion). Fruit a smooth berry or drupe, with (1-)2 pyrenes, generally indehiscent. Worldwide: 60 species in the Old World tropics Caprivi: 4 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. cathartica | Image | |
| cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard var. melanthesoides (Baill.) Radcl.-Sm. | Image | |
| cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard[Agg] | Description, Image | |
| tenuifolia Müll. Arg. var. tenuifolia |