See text Ceratopetalum is a genus of nine species of shrub and tree in the family Cunoniaceae.

They are found along the eastern coast of Australia and extend north to New Guinea.

Two Australian species are among the best known, one being C. apetalum or coachwood, renowned as a timber tree, and C. gummiferum, the New South Wales Christmas bush.

These restricted distributions have been hypothesised to be refugia from cycles of changing climate during the Pleistocene.

[2] Fossil evidence for Ceratopetalum species has been found in Eocene deposits in South Australia.