Paranecepsia Radcl.-Sm.

Dioecious tree with a simple indumentum, . Leaves alternate, crowded at the ends of the branchlets, stipellate, stipulate,shortly petiolate, simple, serrate, penninerved. Inflorescences racemose, axillary, solitary, lax; bracts 1–5-flowered. Male flowers pedicels jointed; calyx closed in bud, later splitting into 3–5 valvate lobes which become reflexed; petals absent. Female flowers pedicels elongate, jointed; sepals 5–7, imbricate, unequal, accrescent; petals absent; ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovule per cell. Fruit 3-lobed, septicidally dehiscent into 3 bivalved cocci; endocarp thinly woody. Seeds globose.

Worldwide: One species in east and south tropical Africa.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.