Sebsebe Demissew (2006) Seddera. Flora of Somalia 3: 228-231
Plants small shrubs, subshrubs, or perennial herbs. Leaves entire, usually with medifixed hairs. Inflorescences axillary or terminat, sessile or pedunculate, of solitary flowers or flowers aggregated in heads, spikes cymes, racemes, or panicles. Sepals 5, subequal or the outer ones larger, obtuse or acute; corollas usually white, rarely yellow, pink, or blue, funnel-shaped, shallowly lobed, mid petalline areas hairy at least distally; stamens 4-5, more or less equal, included; ovaries 2-celled, with 2 ovules per cell, hairy all over or only distally; styles 2, included, sometimes fused at the base, stigmas more or less petate to club-shaped. Fruits usually 4-valved capsules, sometimes indehiscent; seeds ovoid to trigonous, black or dark brown, glabrous.
Seddera is a genus of about 30 species which are native from Africa through the Arabian peninsula eastwards to India.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.