Description: Shrubs or tall shrubs.
Leaves opposite, entire.
Flowers mostly solitary; hypanthium ridged, rugose or papillose, rarely smooth, usually tapering into the flower stalk; sepals 'compound', the inner lobe thin-textured, obtuse, and the dorsal protuberance thickened and often acute; stamens 4–13, located towards the margins of, or opposite, the sepals, weakly geniculate.
Capsules 3-locular, thin-walled; seeds flattened, truncately D-shaped, radially arranged on a low placenta.
Distribution and occurrence: A genus of 6 species. Distribution: New South Wales to northern Queensland.
Species in this genus were formerly included in Babingtonia but the latter genus is restricted to Western Australia.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Wilson et al. (2007) Aust. Syst. Bot. 20: 302–318.
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Leaves >1.5 mm wide. | 2 |
| Leaves <1.5 mm wide. | 3 |
| 2 | Petals >2.5 mm wide; hypanthium rough; leaves with length/breadth ratio of 1.7–2.2:1. | Kardomia prominens |
| Petals <2.5 mm wide; hypanthium smooth; leaves with length/breadth ratio of 1.2–1.7:1.
Back to 1 | Kardomia silvestris |
| 3 | Leaves linear; outer sepals acute or acuminate, 0.8–1.8 mm long. | Kardomia odontocalyx |
| Leaves obovate; outer sepals obtuse, to 0.3 mm long
Back to 1 | Kardomia jucunda |
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