Plants trees, shrubs, subshrubs, or woody climbers, often functionally dioecious. Leaves usally alternate, sometimes opposite, entire or tooth. Inflorescences cymose but appearing like panicles, heads, or spikes. Flowers bisexualy or unisexuall, radially symmetric; calyces more or less tubulare campanulate, smooth to deeply-ribbed, 2-5(-10)-lobed, usually persisten, sometimes much enlarged in frtui' corollas small to large, salverform to funnel-shaped, with 4-5, usually spreading or reflexed lobes; stamens as many as the corolla lobes, exserted or included; oavries 4-celled; styles terminal, twice 2-fif or 4-branched, stigmatic areas linear or spathulate. Fruits usually orange or yellowish drupes with a thin exocarp, mucilaginous mesocarp, and a woody endocarp, sometimes a hard nut with a corky of woody mesocarp.
Cordia is a tropicalgenus with about about 300 species, most of which are natives to the America. The fruits of most species found in Somaliland and Somalia are edible.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.
