Editing Rhynchocalyx (section)

{{Short description|Genus of trees}}
{{speciesbox
| image = Rhynchocalyx lawsonioides00.gif
| image_caption = by [[Matilda Smith]]
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=Victor, J.E. |author2=von Staden, L. |year=2023 |title=''Rhynchocalyx lawsonioides'' |volume=2023 |page=e.T30360A210907388 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T30360A210907388.en |access-date=10 April 2025}}</ref>
| genus = Rhynchocalyx
| parent_authority = [[Daniel Oliver (botanist)|Oliv.]]
| species = lawsonioides
| authority = [[Daniel Oliver (botanist)|Oliv.]]
}}

'''''Rhynchocalyx lawsonioides''''', the '''false-waterberry''', is a small [[flowering plant|flowering]] [[tree]], the sole species of the genus '''''Rhynchocalyx'''''. It had also previously been regarded as the only species in the monogeneric family '''Rhynchocalycaceae''' but is now included in the expanded [[Penaeaceae]] along with ''[[Olinia]]'' (formerly of the Oliniaceae) under the [[APG III system]] of classification.<ref name="apgiii">{{Citation |author=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> ''Rhynchocalyx'' is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to the [[KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic]] ecoregion of the [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]] and [[Eastern Cape]] provinces of [[South Africa]].