Demissew, Sebsebe (1999) Tiliaceae in Flora of Somalia 2: 14-18
Plants annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs, erect or scandent, with stellate hairs, sometimes intermixed with simple hairs. Leaves stipulate; atipules aubulate to narrowly triangular; blades entire to digitately lobed, with crenate, dentate, or serrate margins. Inflorescences leaf-opposed or terminal. Sepals 5, linear to elliptic, with or without apical horns; petals yellow to orange, obovate to linear, shorter than the sepals, with ciliolate claws; androgynophores produced into a more or less membranous ciliate ring or disc within which the stamens are inserted; stamens 5-40; ovaries 2-5-celled with 2 ovules per cell; styles slender; stigmas entire or 2-5-lobed. Capsules bristly or spiny, indehsicent or dehiscent with with 3-5 valves; seeds brown, obovoid to subreniform.
Triumfetta includes about 100 species, all of which are tropical. There are 5 species in 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.