Annickia Setten & Maas

Small to medium-sized trees with a rusty to light brown indumentum of simple, bifid, trifid, fasciculate or stellate hairs. Leaves: venation slightly furrowed on upper leaf surface, prominent on the lower surface. Flowers bisexual, terminal but extra-axillary as a result of the continuation of growth of a lateral shoot, solitary, on a short pedicel; bracteoles often caducous; sepals 3, free, valvate, triangular, smaller than the petals; outer whorl of petals absent, inner petals 3, opposite the sepals, free, valvate, fleshy, pressed against each other creating an inversely Y-shaped ridge which is visible on the inner side, concave at the base forming a pollination chamber; stamens numerous, spirally arranged, linear, filaments very short, anthers extrorse, connective extended or not extended; carpels numerous, spirally arranged, cylindrical, pubescent, with a single ovule per carpel, stigma sessile, cylindrical to clavate. Fruit with an elongated and often thickened pedicel; stipes of the monocarps short and stout to long and slender, generally green turning red at maturity; monocarps free, up to 55 per fruit, oblong to obovoid, glossy, generally green turning red to almost black at maturity, in sicco brown to almost black (except for A. kummerae); seed oblong to obovate, seed coat with spiniform to flattened peg-like ruminations, endosperm foveolate to finely foveolate.