Description: Trees or shrubs, unarmed.
Leaves alternate, 2-foliolate, pinnae free, asymmetric, venation palmate; stipules caducous.
Flowers in terminal racemes. Calyx base turbinate or disc-like, calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5. Stamens 10, all fertile; filaments free; anthers oblong, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary glabrous, stipitate; style usually filiform; stigma peltate.
Pod indehiscent; seeds flat.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 7 species, Asia & Australia. Australia: 5 species, Qld, N.S.W., N.T., W.A., S.A.
Text by S. McCune & B. Wiecek
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Calyces with base short and broad; indumentum of calyx, buds and petals more or less tomentose, cream to reddish brown | Lysiphyllum gilvum |
| Calyces base narrow-turbinate; indumentum of calyx, buds and petals appressed-pubescent, rusty brown | Lysiphyllum carronii |
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