Virectaria Bremek.

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubby herbs with erect or procumbent stems from a fibrous rootstock. Leaves paired. Stipules small, limbs free, entire. Flowers small, in few- to many-flowered cymose clusters at the apices of the main shoots. Calyx tube ovoid or urceolate; lobes 5–6, spathulate, filiform or lanceolate with small glands between each pair; corolla tube filiform to narrowly infundibuliform, lobes 4–6(7), deltoid to lanceolate, suberect. Fruit capsule, subglobose, splitting in a plane at right angles to the central partition into 2 valves one of which often falls away. Seeds small, brownish, subglobose.

Worldwide: Seven species in tropical Africa.

Burundi: 3 taxa.