5506.000 Barringtonia J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Shrubs or trees, rarely with buttresses. Leaves spirally arranged at ends of branchlets, lamina simple, base cuneate, margins entire to serrate, apex usually acute, veins prominent abaxially. Inflorescence a raceme, terminal or lateral on twigs, or cauliflorous, generally pendulous and long, very rarely erect and short; peduncle often with a tuft of cataphylls at base. Flowers with globular buds; calyx of 4-5 persistent lobes inserted on rim of receptacle, or breaking at anthesis, or circumscissile; sepals free, adnate to staminal tube, outer ones smaller than inner. Fruit obovoid to ellipsoid to fusiform, terete or angled to winged. Seed large; testa brownish.

Worldwide: c. 50 species in tropical and sub-tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar, South Asia, China, Australia and Pacific Islands.

Mozambique: 2 taxa.