Heywoodia is a genus of plants in the Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1907.Thomas Robertson Sim. 1907. Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 326 It contains only one known species, Heywoodia lucens, native to eastern, southeastern, and southern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Cape Province).

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