Codonocarpus A.Cunn. ex Endl.

3 species endemic Aust.; all states and territories except Tas.

Codonocarpus attenuatus (Hook.) H.Walter

Small tree up to 15 m high with thin flexuose branches. Leaves narrow-obovate to narrow-elliptic, up to 10 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, acuminate, petiolate. Male flowers with 10–20 stamens. Female flowers small greenish; perianth segments connate into a sinuate-toothed tube; carpels numerous connate into a ring around a central disc. Fruit a campanulate schizocarp, 10–15 mm diam., breaking up into winged mericarps at maturity. Hunter River Valley; Mt Waring; Howes Valley. RF margins and open forests. Bell-fruit Tree