Picralima

Trees or shrubs with white latex in all parts; branchlets glabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, those of a pair equal or subequal, elliptic to oblong, entire, glabrous. Inflorescence a compound, umbellate cyme, terminal or sometimes axillary, pedunculate. Flowers +/-regular, fragrant. Sepals connate at extreme base, imbricate, glabrous outside, with 2-4 rows of colleters at base. Corolla white to yellow, tube almost cylindric, often greenish, glabrous outside, pubescent inside below stamens; lobes overlapping to left in bud, entire, glabrous, spreading and later recurved. Stamens arising above middle of corolla tube, included; filaments very short, filiform, glabrous; anthers ovate in outline, cordate at base, glabrous, thecae 2, parallel, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary of 2 separate glabrous carpels united at base by a disc-like thickening; ovules many per carpel; pistil head composed of a basal cylindric stigmatic part and a filiform stigmoid apex. Fruit composed of 2 separate divaricate, obovoid to ellipsoid mericarps with rounded apex and containing up to 80 seeds. Seeds somewhat angular, smooth, brown; testa hard; embryo straight, spathulate, surrounded by thick, rather hard starchy endosperm leaving a hole around radicle apex, cotyledons thick.