Beilschmiedia Nees

Trees or shrubs, evergreen; terminal buds mostly conspicuous. Leaves opposite, sub-opposite or alternate, leathery or papery, very rarely membranous, penninerved, veins usually conspicuous; margins entire. Inflorescence short, mostly cymose-paniculate, sometimes as axillary flower-bundles or sub-racemose, sometimes covered by imbricate caducous bracts when young. Flowers small, perianth tube short, perianth segments 6(or 8), equal or almost equal. Fruit baccate, ellipsoid, obovoid or subglobose. Perianth in fruit usually wholly deciduous.

Worldwide: 300 species mainly in tropical Africa, South East Asia, Australasia, China and America.

Caprivi: 2 cultivated taxa.