Pachylobus G.Don

Dioecious trees. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire. Inflorescences of axillary or terminal, elongated panicles; branches of inflorescence, calyx and corolla usually with a dense indumentum of stellate or dendroid hairs mixed with simple hairs. Calyx rotate or broadly campanulate, divided almost to the base; lobes 3, valvate. Petals 3, valvate or sometimes slightly imbricate, incurved, somewhat hooded and usually mucronulate at the apex. Ovary 2 (3)-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Fruit an ovoid or ellipsoid drupe; endocarp thin and cartilaginous. Seed large; cotyledons very much thickened and deeply folded, thus appearing palmately lobed. (Description based on formerly broadly defined genus Dacryodes)

Comment: The African species formerly placed in the broadly defined genus Dacryodes now fall under this genus. Dacryodes s.s. is now restricted to Tropical South America and tropical Southeast Asia.

Worldwide: 17 species in West and Central tropical Africa as far as northern Angola and northern Zambia.

DRC: 2 taxa.