Plants shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, entire, alternate or clustered, leathery. Inflorescences racemes, terminal or axillary, simple or compound, often corymbose, less frequently clustered on reduced shoots. Flowers usually small, radially symmetric, bisexual; sepals 4, touching, free or very slightly united at the base; petals abent; receptacle wih a short fimbriate or granulate disk, sometimes extremely reduced; stamens 5-36, free, borne directly on the receptable or on a reduced androphore; ovary on a gynophore, ovoid, globose, or ellipsoid; style short, often conical, stigmatic region capitate or flattened; ovules 4-several. Fruit globose, indehiscent, up to 3.5(-5) cm in diameter, usually with a crusty exocarp; seeds more or less spherical, compressed, wrinkled, or pustulate.
Bsocia is a genus of about 20 species. It is widespread in drier regions of Africa, Madagascar, and Arabia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.
