Genus: 10 species.
BotanyShrubs, trees.
Flowers: small, white; inner surface of the petals is conspicuously hairy; ovary 3-locular.
Taxonomy It was formerly placed in the family
Icacinaceae. Emmotum is divided into Emmotum and Brevistyla. Brevistyla had formerly been treated as a separate genus. The Apg4 system places this group in the family
Metteniusaceae.