Botanical Family · Icacinales

Icacinaceae

Icacina Or White Pear Family

6 speciesOrder Icacinales4+ well-known plants

The Icacinaceae family (Icacina Or White Pear Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Icacinales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 6 species across 5 genera. Members range from trees to shrubs. Well-represented genera include Gomphandra, Apodytes and Nothapodytes. Familiar examples include White Pear, Four-Stamen Gomphandra and nothapodytes.

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Representative ICACINACEAE specimen
Representative specimen · Icacinaceae
Key pattern

Simple alternate leaves on trees, shrubs, and woody climbers; small flowers with a fused, often hairy corolla ripen into a drupe with a single large, hard-shelled seed.

A taxonomically scattered family of otherwise hard-to-classify tropical trees and lianas, several valued locally for their timber or oil-rich seeds.

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