Campynemanthe is a genus of plants in the Campynemataceae family, first described by Henri Baillon in 1893.Tropicos, Campynemanthe Baill. The entire genus is endemic to New Caledonia in the southwestern Pacific.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGoldblatt, P. “Campynemataceae.” In Flore de La Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances, edited by P. Morat and H. S. MacKee, 16:125–34. Paris: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 1990. Its closest relative is the monotypic genus Campynema from Tasmania,Vinnersten, A., and K. Bremer. (2001). Age and Biogegraphy of Major Clades in Lilliales.” American Journal of Botany 88 (9): 1695–1703. sole other genus of the family.
