1	"Flowers distinct, not arranged in spikelets; glumes gaping"	Lepyrodia
1	"Flowers aggregated in definite spikelets; glumes closely imbricate"	2
2	"Leaf sheaths broad, loose and soon deciduous"	Lepidobolus
2	"Leaf sheaths persistent"	3
3	"Spikelets sessile"	Empodisma
3	"Spikelets pedicellate"	4
4	"Anthers exserted beyond the glumes (in the S.Aust. species)"	5
4	"Anthers not exserted"	6
5	"Spikelets in a raceme or panicle"	Restio
5	"Spikelets on simple peduncles in the fascicles of leaf-like branches"	Loxocarya
6	"Stems much-branched"	Hypolaena
6	"Stems simple, occasionally with 1 or 2 branches or branched at the base"	Leptocarpus