Belongs to the monotypic genus.

Dioecious tree up to 20 m high and 50-70 cm in diameter; with strong camphor smell. Trunk to thick whitish bark, scaly rhytidomes. Leaves spiral, simple. Inflorescences axillary, thyrse. Flowers unisexual, regular and homochlamyd. Drupe covered by two wings of unequal size; fleshy mesocarp. Seeds obovoid, laterally compressed.

Hazomalania is similar to Hernandia but the difference is that it is monoecious and evergreen. Its phylogenetic position within the family remains unresolved. It could be related to the genera Hernandia or Illigera (Wang & al., 2021).

Its wood is light, soft and resistant to insect and fungal attack. It is used in construction (coffin, tomb, canoe, zebu cart). Its bark is used in the treatment of stomach aches, malaria; the pulp of crushed fruit is used as nail polish. Essential oil extracted from leaves has antimicrobial properties (Ruphin & al., 2014). H. voyroni takes 200 years to reach the size required for commercial exploitation (Réau, 2002).