Botany: sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America.
DD: Bromine.
Botany TrichiliaFlowers: stamens partially or completely fused; anthers at the apex of the filaments or on the margin of the staminal tube.
Fruit: a 2–3-valved loculicidal capsule containing fleshy seeds partly or completely surrounded by an arillode or rarely a sarcotesta.