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Notes:
This genus was described to include two distinctive species of shrubs and small trees from the Guayana Highlands, which were separated from Remijia based on their capitate inflorescences; additionally these species share a robust habit, dense pilose or hirsute pubescence, relatively large leaves and stipules, and well developed peduncles. However other species of Remijia also have capitate and sometimes pedunculate inflorescences. Andersson (1995) studied the systematics of the Tribe Cinchoneae and concluded that Cephalodendron is not distinct, and synonymized it with Remijia but did not make the combinations in Remijia for its two species, Cephalodendron globosum and Cephalodendron aracumuniensis; these combinations were published by Taylor et al. (2004).
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