Genus: 1 species.
BotanyTree; ± 3 m tall.
Leaves: narrow, leathery.
Flowers: yellow to light yellow; extra-axillary, five-petal; solitary; almost attached; bell-shaped; short tube and a wide crown hem, deeply lobed; stamens 5; bipartite ovary, with a single ovule in for each ovary.
Fruit: egg-shaped berry.
Seeds: relatively large; no endosperm; straight embryo has thick cotyledons, significantly longer than the small germ root.
Region: Antilles.
Habitat: very dry.
TaxonomyThe assignment was questioned for a long time. Armando Hunziker assigns it and 3 others to a family of his own Goetzeaceae. Molecular biological studies have shown that the genera belonging to the Goetzeaceae, together with the genera Duckeodendron and Metternichia, can be classified in the nightshade family. Richard Olmstead leads them in his family system in a subfamily
Goetzeoideae.