M. Thulin (1993) Resedaceae, Flora of Somalia 1:76-81
Plants small shrubs, often leafless or apparently so, with many slender, usually greenish branches; branchlets spinescent. Leaves entire, sessile, more or less fleshy, linear to oblong. Flowers subtended by bracts, usually bisexual; sepals 5-6, widely separated around the fleshy, cup-shaped receptable [hypanthium]; petals, if present, minute and caducous; stamens 10-30(-50); filaments attached to the disc; ovaries open before and sometimes after fertilization, of 3(-4) carpels, often minutely punctate-glandular, stigmatic areas at the tips; ovules numerous, in 2-4 rows. Fruits fleshy and berry-like or leathery to membranous capsules; seeds reniform.
Ochradenus is a small genus of the southeastern Mediterranean region, northeastern Afria and easter through Arabia and Iran to wesern Pakistan.