16; see text Hedycarya is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants in the family Monimiaceae[2] native to eastern Australia, New Zealand, and some Pacific Islands.

[1] Plants in the genus Hedycarya are shrubs, or small to medium trees with sometimes toothed leaves.

The male and female flowers cup-shaped and are borne on separate plants.

[3][4][5] The genus was Hedycarya was first formerly described in 1776 by botanists Johann and Georg Forster in Characteres Generum Plantarum.

[6][7] The limit of the genus may require change as it appears paraphyletic in phylogenetic analyses, with the genera Kibaropsis and Levieria nested in it.