Trochocarpa is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae[2] native to Australia, New Guinea, Borneo and Malesia.
Plants in the genus Trochocarpa are shrubs or small trees, the leaves with more or less parallel veins, flowers in small clusters, each with 5 sepals, petals joined to form a cylindrical or bell-shaped tube, and the fruit a more or less spherical drupe.
The flowers are borne in small spikes in leaf axils or on the ends of branches on older wood, the flowers sessile with a small bract and 2 bracteoles at the base of the 5 egg-shaped sepals.
[2][3] The genus Trochocarpa was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen, and the first species he described (the type species) was Trochocarpa laurina.
[6] The following is a list of Trochocarpa species accepted by Plants of the World Online as at May 2024:[7]