Icuria Wieringa

Unarmed evergreen trees, to 40 m tall. Leaves paripinnate, with 1–2 pairs of leaflets; leaflets sessile, with only slightly excentric main nerve; stipules free, valvate in bud, caducous. Flowers in axillary panicles, almost sessile, ± distichous; bracts small, early caducous; bracteoles pinkish, valvate, shortly fused near the base. Hypanthium very short or absent, when present fused with the bracteoles. Sepals reduced, only the adaxial one sometimes present and often fused to the bracteoles; petals usually 0, rarely a vestigial lateral one present. Pods oblong-obovate, broadest near the apex, beaked, compressed, woody, dehiscent. Seeds elliptic in outline, with a protruding base; testa very thin.

Derivation of name: from a vernacular name, Icurri, used for the single species, Icuria dunensis.

Worldwide: One species only, occurring in coastal Mozambique.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.