Parapodium E. Mey.

Perennial erect herbs with thickened rootstock. Leaves opposite, petiolate or subsessile, simple, sometimes with margin undulate. Flowers in lateral umbels. Sepals 5, separate almost to base, sometimes almost as long as corolla, with scales within sinuses. Corolla of 5 lobes; lobes as broad as long, or obcordate, adnate to basal portion of corolla tube. Follicles coriaceous with few scattered protruberances. Seeds elliptic with prominent ridges.

Worldwide: Three species, native to southern Africa.

Botswana: 1 taxon.