Sebsebe Demissew (2006) Cladostigma. Flora of Somalia 3: 227-228
Plants erect or climbing dioecious shrubs. Leaves alternate or clustered, covered with medi-fixed hairs on both sides. Male flowers in sessile or pedunculate inflorescences; sepals , subequal; corollas tubular, much longer than the sepals, 5-lobed, pubescent on the outside; stamens 5, filaments subequal; pistillodes with 2 styles these longer than the stamens, terminating in U-shaped, non-functional, stigmatic branches. Female flowers in pedunculate inflorescences or clustered; sepals usually subequal and all enlarging in fruit, sometimes unequal the three outer ones enlarging in fruit, the other two remaining smaller; corollas only slightly longer than the sepals, pubescent on the outside; staminodes 5, more or less equal in length, the filaments widened at the base, without anthers; ovaries 2-celled, glabrous to pubescent at the top, with 2 ovules per cell; styles 2; stigmas branched. Caosules 4-valved, 1-2-seeded, enclosed by the enlarged sepals; seeds ovioid to trigonous, rugose.
Cladostigma is a genus of 3 species. It is restricted to northeastern and eastern tropical Africa and Arabia. There wre two species in Somaliland and Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.