D. Goyder (2006) Secamone. Flora of Somalia 3: 143-144
Plants lianas and twining shrubs. glabrous or puberulent; latex white. Leaves opposite, petiolate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, simple or compound cymes. Corollas rotate or campanulate, lobed to halfway or more corolline coronas of 5, usually paired, fleshy ridges running from the base of the corolla tubes to the sinuses of the lobes; staminal coronas os 5 laterally compressed ot subulate lobes; pollinaria minute, with 4 apollinai attached directly or by 4 short, flattened caudicesl to the pale, porous corpuscula; stigmatic heads exserted beyond the top of the staminal columns or not. Follicles paired but sometimes only 1 develoing, smooth or shallowly striate; seeds ovate, compressed, with a tuft of white or ivory hairs.
Secamone is a genus of about 130 species that are native to Africa and Asia. There is a centre or diversity in Madagascar and a secondary centre in tropical Africa. One species, Secamone punctulata, is known from 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.