| Carpodetus | |
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| Carpodetus serratus in New Zealand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Rousseaceae |
| Subfamily: | Carpodetoideae |
| Genus: | Carpodetus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. |
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Carpodetus is a genus of flowering plants in the Rousseaceae family. It was formerly considered to lie within the Escalloniaceae. Its species occur in New Guinea, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.[1] The genus is characterised by small trees with alternate, evergreen leaves, bearing small white flowers with few stamens.[2]
- ^ Pillon, Y., H. C. F. Hopkins, L. Barrabe, and E. A. Stacy (2014). A New Record for Carpodetus (Rousseaceae) in Vanuatu. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52: 449–52.
- ^ Praglowski, Joseph; Grafström, Elizabeth (1985). "The genus Carpodetus (Escalloniaceae): a pollenmorphological enigma". Grana. 24 (1): 11–21. Bibcode:1985Grana..24...11P. doi:10.1080/00173138509427419.