Abdi M. Dahir (1999) Salvadoraceae, Flora of Somalia 2: 122-126.
Plants trees or shrubs, unarmed, often scrambling. Inflorescences axiallary or terminal panicles, flowers sessile or pedicellate. Flowers bisexual; calyces 4-lobed; corollas with 4 petals, these shortly united at the base; stamens 4, attached to the base of the corollas; disc absent or reprsened by small glands between the filaments; ovaries 1-celled, with 1 ovule. Fruits drupes.
Salvadora is a genus of about 4 species that grow from Africa and Arabaia to India and China.