Daniellia Benn.

Unarmed evergreen or deciduous trees. Leaves simply paripinnate; stipules intrapetiolar, connate into a structure lanceolate in outline, enfolding the axillary bud, open on the abaxial side, and very soon caducous; petiolules not twisted; leaflets opposite or subopposite, with pellucid gland-dots (sometimes restricted to certain parts of the leaflet, such as near the margins or midrib or base). Inflorescence paniculate; ultimate branches racemose; flowers spirally arranged; pedicels jointed at base; bracteoles large, well-developed, concavo-convex, ± completely concealing the young flower-buds, one bracteole overlapping the other by its margins, both caducous before the flower opens. Hypanthium elongate. Sepals 4, imbricate (2 outer, 2 inner). Petals either (2–)3 large or medium ± 2(–3) very small, or 1 large or medium ± 4 very small. Stamens 10, free, or 9 of them shortly connate at base. Ovary stipitate, the stipe adnate to the hypanthium; style long; stigma small. Pods dehiscing into 2 valves; endocarp coriaceous, curling up and separating from the stiffly papery to thinly woody exocarp; seeds solitary, large, with smooth hard testa, affixed near the distal end of the pod, dis-persed together with and while still remaining attached to the exocarp of one valve of the pod; funicle rather long, expanded at its end into a small aril.