Platysace is a genus of about 22 species of woody perennial herbs, shrubs and subshrubs in the family Apiaceae, and is endemic to Australia.

Plants in the genus Platysace are woody perennial herbs, shrubs or subshrubs and have simple or lobed leaves.

The flowers are bisexual or male, sometimes without sepals, and have white, cream-coloured or pinkish, elliptical to egg-shaped petals.

[2][3][4][5] The genus Platysace was first described in 1845 by Alexander von Bunge in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae, and the first species he described (the type species) was Platysace cirrosa.

[8] The following is a list of species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at March 2024:[9]