Acronychia is a genus of about fifty species of plants in the rue family Rutaceae.

The leaves are simple or pinnate, and the flowers bisexual with four sepals, four petals and eight stamens.

They have a broad distribution including in India, Malesia, Australia and the islands of the western Pacific Ocean.

The flowers are arranged in leaf axils either singly or in cymes or panicles.

The stigma is small, not differentiated from the style, the fruit is a drupe and the seeds are black.