Picconia DC.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 55

9. Picconia DC. 12

Evergreen trees or shrubs, with smooth, whitish bark. Twigs terete. Leaves opposite, simple, entire or rarely serrulate, coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers hermaphrodite, small, in short axillary racemes. Calyx rotate-stellate, 4-lobed. Corolla rotate, white, deeply divided into 4 patent, oblong lobes. Stamens epipetalous; anthers subsessile, exserted. Fruit a dry drupe with a crustaceous endocarp.