Description:
Tall trees; trunk straight, cylindric, without buttresses; bark pale grey. Leaves paripinnate, 1- or 2-jugate; leaflets opposite, never emarginate; basal leaflet with glands only in proximal half; stipules free, valvate in bud. Inflorescences compound racemes, axillary on terminal node, 1 per node; bracts early caducous, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Flowers sometimes unisexual by reduction. Sepals 1 or absent, only abaxial sepal sometimes present and then fused to the bracteoles. Petals usually absent, rarely a vestigial lateral petal present. Stamens 6-8, all shortly fused at base; anthers relatively large, purple-pink, without dorsal teeth, dorsifixed. Ovary shortly stalked, velvety; ovules 1-3; style insertion excentric, style usually geniculate at base and near apex; stigma +/- mushroom-shaped. Pod laterally flattened, distinctly beaked, puberulous to velvety; lateral nerve running above middle of pod; wings of upper suture narrow. Seeds with a very thin membranous testa.
Distribution:
Monotypic genus: Icuria dunensis Wieringa, known only from coastal dunes in Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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