About 20-26 Comocladia is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae.

[2] The term guao is commonly used to refer to Comocladia species in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

The leaves are divided into opposite pairs of leaflets that usually have toothed or spiny edges.

The plants are polygamodioecious, producing male, female, and bisexual flowers.

[1] The plants produce an exudate that turns black on contact with air.