Icacina

Shrubs, trees or lianes, often with thick underground tubers. Leaves alternate, entire, penninerved. Inflorescences axillary, extra-axillary or terminal panicles, spikes of fascicles. Flowers bisexual. Calyx small, +/- deeply 5-toothed. Petals 5, free, valvate, pubescent on inner face. Stamens 5; filaments free; anthers ovoid-oblong. Disc hypogynous, +/- well-developed. Ovary 1-locular, often asymmetric, ovoid-oblong, narrowing towards apex; ovules 2; style often excentric, and bifid; stigma capitate, small. Fruit a 1-seeded, ellipsoid, often asymmetric drupe; endocarp crustaceous. Seed with small embryo situated at summit of endosperm.