Cunonia
# 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 L.

New Caledonia

* Cunonia × alticola Guillaumin
* Cunonia aoupiniensis Hoogland
* Cunonia atrorubens Schltr.
* Cunonia austrocaledonica Brongn. ex Guillaumin
* Cunonia balansae Brongn. & Gris
* Cunonia bopopensis Pillon & H.C. Hopkins
* Cunonia bullata Brongn. & Gris
* Cunonia cerifera Hoogland
* Cunonia deplanchei Brongn. & Gris
* Cunonia dickisonii Pillon & H.C. Hopkins
* Cunonia × koghicola H.C. Hopkins, J. Bradford & Pillon
* Cunonia lenormandii Vieill. ex Brongn. & Gris
* Cunonia linearisepala (Guillaumin) Bernardi
* Cunonia macrophylla Brongn. & Gris
* Cunonia montana (Brongn. & Gris) Schltr.
* Cunonia pseudoverticillata Guillaumin
* Cunonia pterophylla (Brongn. & Gris) Schltr.
* Cunonia pulchella Brongn. & Gris
* Cunonia purpurea Brongn. & Gris
* Cunonia rotundifolia Däniker
* Cunonia rupicola Hoogland
* Cunonia schinziana Däniker
* Cunonia varijuga Hoogland
* Cunonia vieillardii Brongn. & Gris
