Lepiderema

Lepiderema is a genus of eight species of trees in the lychee family Sapindaceae native to New Guinea (2 species) and eastern Australia (6 species), plus one more from Queensland that is yet to be formally described. The type species is Lepiderema papuana.

==Description== Plants in this genus are shrubs or small trees that are usually monoecious, i.e. flowers are either male or female, but both will be produced by an individual plant. The leaves are alternate and compound, with an even number of opposite or sub-opposite leaflets that may have smooth or toothed edges. The petiolules (the stalks of the leaflets) are usually short and pulvinate. Inflorescences may be racemes or panicles, produced in the or from the branches on old wood. Flowers are regular and 5-merous with 6–8 stamens, ovaries are 3-locular with one ovule per locule. The fruit are 3-locular capsules, glabrous, dehiscent, becoming woody. Seeds ellipsoid, one per locule, either fully or partly enclosed in an aril.