Cunonia



Cunonia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Cunoniaceae. The genus has a disjunct distribution, with 24 species endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific, and one species (Cunonia capensis) in Southern Africa. Leaves are opposite, simple or pinnate with a margin entire to serrate. Interpetiolar stipules are often conspicuous and generally enclose buds to form a spoon-like shape (hence the common name "butterspoon tree" for Cunonia capensis). Flowers are bisexual, white, red (pink to purple), or green, arranged in racemes. The fruit is a capsule opening first around the base then vertically, seeds are winged.

List of species
Southern Africa
 * Cunonia capensis

New Caledonia
 * Cunonia × alticola
 * Cunonia aoupiniensis
 * Cunonia atrorubens
 * Cunonia austrocaledonica
 * Cunonia balansae
 * Cunonia bopopensis
 * Cunonia bullata
 * Cunonia cerifera
 * Cunonia deplanchei
 * Cunonia dickisonii
 * Cunonia × koghicola
 * Cunonia lenormandii
 * Cunonia linearisepala
 * Cunonia macrophylla
 * Cunonia montana
 * Cunonia pseudoverticillata
 * Cunonia pterophylla
 * Cunonia pulchella
 * Cunonia purpurea
 * Cunonia rotundifolia
 * Cunonia rupicola
 * Cunonia schinziana
 * Cunonia varijuga
 * Cunonia vieillardii