Pseudoxandra lucida is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its shiny ( in Latin) leaves.
It is a tree reaching in height. Its shiny leathery leaves are 7âÂÂ20 by 2âÂÂ6.5 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are hairless on their upper and lower surfaces, but can have small warty bumps. The leaves are green, greenish brown or dark brown above and brown on their underside. Its petioles are 5âÂÂ8 millimeters long. Its flowers are solitary or in pairs and axillary. Each flower is on a pedicel 2âÂÂ5 millimeters long. Its flowers have 3 oval-shaped sepals that are 1.5âÂÂ3 by 3âÂÂ5 millimeters. The outer surface of the sepals is densely hairy. Its 6 petals are arranged in two rows of 3. The outer petals are pale green to yellow and 8âÂÂ11 by 6âÂÂ10 millimeters. The outer petals are densely hairy on their outer surface. The inner petals are similarly colored, 7âÂÂ14 by 5âÂÂ7 millimeters, and concave. The inner petals are smooth on their outer surface except for a hairy patch running from the tip to the base. It has numerous stamens that are 2âÂÂ3.5 millimeters long. Each flower has 2âÂÂ20 monocarps that are red, orange, purple or black at maturity and 9âÂÂ14 millimeters wide. Its brown seeds are 8âÂÂ12 by 9âÂÂ11 millimeters.
The pollen of P. lucida is shed as permanent tetrads.