Codonocarpus A.Cunn. ex Endl.

Dioecious or monoecious trees or shrubs, glabrous. Leaves flat, sessile or petiolate. Flowers in racemes, the females often also in terminal panicles. Calyx shortly and often unevenly lobed. Male flowers: stamens in 1 whorl; disc with raised rim. Female flowers: ovary turbinate, of 25–60 carpels each with double keel; stigmas short. Fruit turbinate; carpels dry, with scarious sides, dehiscent on inner margin but often falling entire. Seed attached near apex of column, rugose or smooth.