2034.000 Faurea Harv.

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or clustered near the ends of the branches, simple, entire. Flowers arranged in dense spikes or racemes, each flower in the axil of a small bract; involucre 0. Perianth petaloid, splitting into 2 major lobes at flowering time, releasing the style; one lobe ± free to base, consisting of a single segment, the other with 3 segments. Hypogynous scales 4, persistent. Style long, persistent, filiform, terminating in a simple stigma. Fruit a spherical nut

Derivation of name: for William Caldwell Faure (1822-1844), South African soldier, naturalist, botanist and plant collector.

Worldwide: 15 species in tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar.

Botswana: 1 taxon.