Colubrina Rich. ex Brongn.

Trees, shrubs (sometimes scandent), deciduous or evergreen, unarmed. Stipules minute, early deciduous. Leaves alternate; lamina margins entire, serrate or crenate, papery to sub-leathery, venation pinnate or 3-veined from base. Inflorescence cymes or small thyrses, mainly few-flowered, axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Flowers 5-merous; calyx tube hemispherical; sepals 5, triangular, adaxially conspicuously keeled; abaxially densely pubescent, deciduous; petals 5, erect to spreading, clawed. Fruit capsules, sub-globose, mesocarp thin, explosively splitting, or slowly into 3 ventrally dehiscent 1-seeded endocarpids. Seeds shiny, broadly obovoid.

Worldwide: 31 species, especially tropical and warm regions, mainly American.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.