Small shrubs or suffrutices. Leaves opposite. Flowers usually in cymes, or solitary and axillary, or in terminal spikes or heads with reduced leaves; bracts and bracteoles sometimes spiny. Calyx 4-partite; segments unequal, leaf-like or membranous, sometimes spiny, the two outer enclosing the inner. Corolla ± actinomorphic, 4-5-lobed or ± 2-lipped, with a tubular base; lobes obovate, sometimes unequal. Stamens 2 or 4, not didynamous. Ovary 2-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Capsule solid in upper part; seeds flat with hygroscopic hairs. Derivation of name: After Jacques Barrelier (1606-1673), a Dominican monk and French botanist Worldwide: 250 species in the tropics Angola: 47 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | Provinces | Content |
| alata S.Moore | CA,CN,UI | |
| antunesii Lindau [End] [DD] | HI | |
| benguellensis S.Moore [End] | BE,HI | |
| brownii S.Moore | CA,LN | |
| buddleioides S.Moore [End] [EN] | CC,CU,HI | |
| calole I. Darbysh. [End] [DD] | BO | |
| carruthersiana S.Moore [End] [DD] | BE,CS,HI,MA,NA | |
| crabbeoides I. Darbysh. [End] [EN] | HI | |
| crassa C.B. Clarke subsp. crassa | CC,MO | Description, Image |
| cyanea S.Moore [NrEnd] [LR-nt] | CU,HI,NA | |
| damarensis T.Anderson [NrEnd] | ||
| descampsii Lindau | LS | Description, Image |
| deserticola I. Darbysh. & E. Tripp [End] [LR-lc] | NA | |
| eburnea I.Darbysh. [End] [LR-lc] | BI,CC,HA,HI | |
| elegans S.Moore ex C.B.Clarke subsp. elegans [LR-lc] | BO,CN,CS,CU,HI,LA,NA | |
| elliptica Benoist [NrEnd] [DD] | BE,CS,HI,MA,NA | |
| fernandae I. Darbysh. [End] [DD] | HI | |
| gossweileri S.Moore [End] [LR-lc] | BE,NA | |
| grandicalyx Lindau | BE | |
| holstii Lindau | Image | |
| imatensis I.Darbysh. [End] [DD] | HI,CU | |
| kacondensis S.Moore subsp. glabrescens I.Darbysh. [End] [EN] | HA | |
| kacondensis S.Moore subsp. kacondensis [End] [LR-nt] | BI,CC,HI | |
| louiseana I.Darbysh. [End] [EN] | CS,HA | |
| lugardii C.B.Clarke | Description, Image | |
| mackenii Hook.f. | BE,CC,CS,CU,HI,LA,NA | Description, Image |
| matopensis S.Moore | Description, Image | |
| meeuseana P. G. Mey. [NrEnd] [LR-lc] | NA | |
| namba I. Darbysh. [End] [VU] | CS | |
| newtonii Lindau [End] [EN] | HI,NA | |
| obtusisepala C.B.Clarke [End] [DD] | BE,BI,HA,MA | |
| pabularis S.Moore [End] [LR-lc] | CC,HA,HI | |
| phaylopsis Milne-Redh. | CC | Description, Image |
| polyneura S.Moore [End] [LR-nt] | CU,HI | |
| prionitoides Engl. subsp. namutonensis (Oberm.) I. Darbysh. [NrEnd] [LR-lc] | HI,NA | |
| prionitoides Engl. subsp. strigulosa I. Darbysh. [End] [LR-lc] | BE,BO,CS,LA,NA | |
| rupicola I. Darbysh. [End] [LR-lc] | BE,HI,NA | |
| salicifolia S.Moore [End] [DD] | MA | |
| senensis Klotzsch | CC | Description, Image |
| stellato-tomentosa S.Moore [End] [VU] | CS,MA | |
| subglobosa S.Moore [End] [VU] | BE,CC,HI | |
| taitensis S.Moore subsp. occidentalis (S.Moore) I.Darbysh. [NrEnd] [LR-lc] | BE,BO,CS, CU,HI,NA | |
| thunbergiiflora I.Darbysh. [End] [LR-lc] | LS,MO | |
| villosa S.Moore | CA,CN,CS, MA,UI | |
| violascens S.Moore var. humpatana I.Darbysh. [End] [EN] | HI | |
| violascens S.Moore var. violascens [End] [LR-lc] | CC,CU,HI,NA | |
| welwitschii S.Moore [End] [DD] | MA |