Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition Family Profile Celastraceae Family Description A family of about 94 genera and 1400 species, worldwide; 22 genera occur naturally in Australia. Genera Brassiantha - A genus of two species in New Guinea and Australia; one species occurs naturally in Australia. Simmons et al (2012). Celastrus - A genus of 30 or more species, pantropic; two species occur naturally in Australia. Jessup (1984). Denhamia - A genus of about 17 species in the Pacific and Australia; about 15 species occur in Australia. Cooper & Cooper (2004); McKenna et al (2011); Harden et al (2014); Jessup (1984); Simmons (2004). Dinghoua - A monotypic genus endemic to Australia. Simmons et al (2012). Elaeodendron - A genus of about 80 species, mainly in the tropics and subtropics particularly in Africa; two species occur naturally in Australia. Harden et al. (2014); Jessup (1984) under Cassine; Simmons (2004) Euonymus - A genus of about 180 species, pantropic, well developed in Asia; one species occur naturally in Australia. Hou (1975); Jessup (1984); Simmons et al (2012). Gymnosporia - A genus of about 100 species in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Africa; one species occurs naturally in Australia. Jordaan & Wyk (1999). Hedraianthera - A monotypic genus endemic to Australia. Jessup (1984); Simmons et al (2012). Hexaspora - A monotypic genus endemic to Australia. Jessup (1984). Hippocratea - A genus of about 100 species, pantropic extending into the subtropics; one species occurs naturally in Australia. Jessup (1984). Hypsophila - A genus of two species endemic to Australia. Jessup (1984). Lophopetalum - A genus of about 20 species in Asia, Malesia and Australia; one species occurs naturally in Australia. Byrnes (1971); Jessup (1984). Perrottetia - A genus of about 15 species in Asia, Malesia, Australia, the Pacific islands and Central America; one species occurs naturally in Australia. Jessup (1984). Pleurostylia - A genus of about six species in Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Malesia, Australia and New Caledonia; one species occurs naturally in Australia. Jessup (1984). Salacia - A genus of about 150 species; pantropic; three species occur naturally in Australia. Jessup (1984). Siphonodon - A genus of about seven species in SE Asia, Malesia and Australia; three species occur naturally in Australia. Jessup (1984). References Byrnes, N.B. (1971). A new species of Lophopetalum (Celastraceae), a genus new for Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96:67-69. Cooper, Wendy & Cooper, William T. (2004) Fruits of the Australian tropical rainforest, Nokomis Publications, Clifton Hill, Vic. Ding Hou (1975). A new species of Euonymus (Celastraceae) from Australia. Blumea 22:271-274. Harden, G.J., Nicholson, H.R.W., McDonald, W.J.F., Nicholson, N.J., Tame, T. & Williams, J. (2014). Rainforest Plants of Australia. Rockhampton to Victoria. Gwen Harden Publishing. Jessup, L.W. (1984). Hippocrateaceae. In 'Flora of Australia.' Vol. 22, pp. 180-184. Jessup, L.W. (1984). Celastraceae. In 'Flora of Australia.' Vol. 22, pp. 150-180. Jordaan, M. & Wyk, A.E. van (1999). Systematic studies in subfamily Celastroideae (Celastraceae) in southern Africa: reinstatement of the genus Gymnosporia. South African Journal of Botany. 65:177-181. McKenna, M.J. et al (2011), Delimitation of the segregate genera of Maytenus s.l. (Celastraceae) based on morphological and molecular characters. Systematic Botany 36(4): 922-932. Simmons, M.P. (2004). Celastraceae. In Kubitzki, K.(ed), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Flowering Plants Dicotyldeons. Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin). Vol. 6, pp. 29-64. Simmons, M.P. et al (2012), Phylogeny of Celastraceae tribe Euonymeae inferred from morphological characters and nuclear and plastid genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(1): 16. Copyright © CSIRO 2020, all rights reserved. Web edition hosted at https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest.