St. John's Wort family

Clusiaceae in Australia

including Calophyllaceae, Cambogiaceae, Garciniaceae, Guttiferae, Hypericaceae, and Moronobeaceae.

DILLENIIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Christine Ashe

(updated 30 August 2009)

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Flowers in Australia

Garcinia mangostana
Mangosteen
Sydney, June 2006

Hypericum calycinum
Rose of Sharon
Hobart, December 1984

Hypericum gramineum
Small St. John's Wort
Wyee, December 2007

Hypericum japonicum
Japanese St. John's wort
Wyee, February 2007

A number of Butterfly and Moth species in Australia have larvae that feed on plants in Clusiaceae, including:


Arhopala micale

Aplocera plagiata

Phrissogonus laticostata

Phyllocnistis citrella

Aetholix flavibasalis

Hyposidra incomptaria

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