Licaria Aubl.

Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves usually alternate or occasionally opposite, the blades chartaceous or coriaceous, penninerved, usually somewhat thickened along the margin. Inflorescence usually of axillary and subterminal few-to many-flowered panicles. Involucre lacking. Flowers perfect. Perianth-tube usually distinct, occasionally short or even lacking. Perianth-lobes usually approximately equal. Stamens of ser. I & II small, only occasionally petaloid, and occasionally aborted, those of ser. III fertile, filamentous or sessile, usually biglandular, the anthers 2-celled, extrorse or apically extrorse. Staminodia usually absent. Ovary glabrous or sericeous, immersed in tube. Style slender. Stigma minute. Fruit first included in the enlarged tube, finally exserted, the base enclosed in a simple and thinly margined or thick and double-, rarely triple-margined cupule.