Ludia Comm. ex Juss.

Flacourtiaceae, H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1975

Habit

Trees or shrubs

Leaves

Leaves persistent, alternate, coriaceous, entire, penninerved, the nerves often steeply ascending, reticulation markedly raised on both faces, petioled, exstipulate

Flowers

Flowers bisexual, small, solitary, or rarely 2 or 3 together from the same axil, subsessile, subtended by several minute imbricate suborbicular bracts

Calyx

Sepals 5 or 6, uniseriate, imbricate

Corolla

Petals 0

Stamens

Stamens indefinite in number, inserted on a flat receptacle, with numerous hairs between the filiform filaments; anthers small; connective generally rather obscure

Disc

Disk-glands several, small, along the edge of the receptacle

Pistil

Ovary with 2–4 placentas which bear few to numerous ovules; style columnar, often ± deeply 3-lobed or -partite distally

Fruits

Fruit baccate, hardly or tardily and irregularly dehiscent; pericarp coriaceous

Seeds

Seeds few; testa hard.