Description :

• Trees or shrubs, dioecious, monoecious, or polygamous
• Leaves paripinnate, petiolate; leaflets 2-12-jugate
• Flowers irregular; in congested, axillary or terminal fascicles, racemes or panicles
• Sepals 4 or 5, unequal, ± connate
• Petals 3 or 4, unguiculate, each with a 2-lobed, basal scale
• Disc unilateral
• Stamens 6-9, in an excentric bundle, reduced in bisexual flowers
• Ovary 3-locular; with a single ovule in each locule; much reduced or 0 in male flowers
• Fruit fleshy, indehiscent; carpels almost connate or united only at base, 1 or 2 often aborted
• Seeds elliptic, laterally compressed, without arillode
• x = 8 or 16

Nomenclature:

• Pancovia Willd.
  • Willdenow: 285 (1799) name conserved
  • Exell: 525 (1966)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : Species 10-12, Africa
• Southern Africa : Species 1: Pancovia golungensis (Hiern) Exell & Mendonça, Zululand (KwaZulu-Natal); also in Mozambique