Plants shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, alternate or clustered. Inflorescences terminal, corymbose racemes or flowers clustered or solitary and axiallary. Flowers bilaterally symmetric, Receptacle flattened or shallowly concave. Sepals 4, imbricate, the outer paid concave, the inner pair thin and flattened. Petals 0 or 4, clawed, white or cream. Nectarial appendage arising from the base of the androphore, lower part tubular, upper part often petaloid and showy. Stamens 4-5, filaments free, sometimes decurrent on the gynophore. Gynophore often exceeding the stamens; ovary cylindrical or spindle-shaped, 1-2-celled; ovules 2(-4) on pareital placentae; stigma sessile or subssessile. Fruits cylindric or ellipsoid, sometime torulose, dehiscent or indeshiscent. Seeds reniform, usually embedded in scarlet pulp.
Cadaba is a genus of about 30 species that grow in drier parts of tropical Africa, Madagascar, Asia, and Australia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.
