Acrocarpus Wight ex Arnott, Mag. Zool. Bot. 2 (1838) 547; Polhill & Vidal in Polhill & Raven (eds.), Adv. Leg. Syst. 1 (1981) 88; Watson & Dallwitz, Gen. Leg.-Caesalp. (1983) 7; Ding Hou, Blumea 38 (1994) 314; Hou, Larsen & Larsen, Fl. Malesiana 12 (1996) 435.
Type species: Acrocarpus fraxinifolius Arnott.