D. Goyder (2006) Stigmatorhyncha. Flora of Somalia 3: 166
Plants branched shrubs, sometimes with twining shoots; short shoots very leafy; latex white. Leaves petiolate; blades lanceolate, ovat-lanceolate, elliptic, or spathulate, softly pubescent. Inflorescences extra axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate umbels or flower clusters with up to 12 flowers; pedicels very short; sepals ovate or elliptic, softly pubescent; corollas lobed to the middle, campanulate, smooth on the outside, densly hairy on the inside, bases adnates to the the gynostegia; corolline corollas abset; gynostegial coronas: lobes staminal, bases adnate to the back of the anthers, dorsiventrally flattened; anther membranes elilliptic lanceolate, more or less pointed; stigmatic heads elongated and taperin; pollinia erect, ovoid, attached basally to horizontally oriented translator arms; corpuscula elongated; carpels with 2 seed chambers for each follicle. Follicles single or paired and diverging at about 120°, smooth or with an irregular knobbly ridge near the base, beaked; seeds usually 1 per follicle, with a tuft of hairs at the end.
Stigmatorhyncus is a genus of 2 or 3 disjunct species native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa. One species has been found in Somaliland and Somalia plus eastern Ethiopia, but it had been named when volume 3 of the Flora of Somalia was published. There are three specimens cited in the Flora of Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.