Bauera capitata is a species of flowering plant in the family Cunoniaceae and is endemic to coastal eastern Australia.

It is a small shrub with trifoliate, usually lobed leaves and sessile, deep pink flowers with twelve to fifteen stamens.

Bauera capitata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 30 cm (12 in) and has a few spreading branches.

[2][3][4] Bauera capitata was first formally described in 1830 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, from an unpublished description by Nicolas Charles Seringe.

[7] This species of Bauera grows in near-coastal areas from south-eastern Queensland to Port Hacking in New South Wales.