Corynocarpaceae Engl.

Trees or shrubs, bisexual. Leaves alternate, sometimes in pseudowhorls, simple, entire or occasionally spinose in juveniles, glabrous, coriaceous, petiolate, exstipulate; terminal shoots with caducous cataphylls leaving crescent-shaped scar just above leaf scar. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, the ultimate branches simple cymes. Flowers actinomorphic, hypogynous, pedicellate, bracteate. Sepals and petals 5, free, imbricate. Stamens 5, opposite petals and adnate to them at base; anthers dorsifixed, bilocular, introrse by longitudinal slits; staminodes 5, alternate with stamens, petaloid, each with a basal depressed-globular nectary. Ovary superior, 1-locular; ovule 1 on apical placenta, anatropous; styles 1 or 2; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe; seeds without endosperm; embryo straight.

The fruits and timber of Corynocarpus laevigatus are used in the rural economy of the south-western Pacific area (Morley 1983: 226). See also Brummitt (2007: 113).