Ludia Comm. ex Juss.

Trees or shrubs. Leaves persistent, alternate, coriaceous, entire, petioled, exstipulate. Flowers small, solitary, or rarely 2 or 3 together from the same axil, subsessile, subtended by several minute imbricate suborbicular bracts. Sepals 5 or 6, uniseriate, imbricate; petals 0. Fruit baccate, hardly or tardily and irregularly dehiscent; pericarp coriaceous. Seeds few; testa hard.

Worldwide: 23 species in tropical Africa, Madagascar and other Indian Ocean Islands.

Malawi: 1 taxon.