Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition Family Profile Picrodendraceae Family Description A family of 24 genera and 80 species, world wide tropics especiialy in New Guinea and Australia; seven genera occur naturally in Australia. Genera Austrobuxus - A genus of about 20 species in Malesia, Australia, New Caledonia and Fiji; two species occur naturally in Australia. Airy Shaw (1980a, 1980b); Forster (1997b); Webster (1994b). Choriceras - A genus of two species in New Guinea and Australia; two species occur naturally in Australia. Airy Shaw (1980a, 1980b); Webster (1994b); Forster & van Welzen (1999). Dissiliaria - A genus of six species endemic to Australia. Airy Shaw (1980a, 1980b), Forster (1997c), Harden et al. (2014); Webster (2014). Neoroepera - A genus of two species endemic to Australia. Cooper & Cooper (2004); Department of the Environment (2016); Henderson (1992); Webster (1994b). Petalostigma - A genus of six or seven species in Australia and New Guinea; six species occur naturally in Australia. Webster (1994b). Sankowskya - A monotypic genus endemic to Australia. Forster (1995a). Whyanbeelia - A monotypic genus endemic to Australia. Airy Shaw (1976). References Airy Shaw, H.K. (1976). New or noteworthy Australian Euphorbiaceae. Kew Bulletin 31:341-398. Airy Shaw, H.K. (1980a). A partial synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae - Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycocephalus). Kew Bulletin 35:577-700. Airy Shaw, H.K. (1980b). New or noteworthy Australian Euphorbiaceae, II. Muelleria 4:207-241. Cooper, Wendy & Cooper, William T. (2004). Fruits of the Australian tropical rainforest. (Nokomis Publications, Clifton Hill, Vic). Department of the Environment (2016). Neoroepera buxifolia in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Mon, 9 May 2016 15:34:25 +1000. Forster, P.I. (1995a). Sankowskya, a new genus of Euphorbiaceae (Dissiliariinae) from the Australian Wet Tropics. Austrobaileya 4:329- 335. Forster, P.I. (1997b). A taxonomic revision of Austrobuxus Miq. (Euphorbiaceae: Dissiliariinae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 4:619-626. Forster, P.I. (1997c). A taxonomic revision of Dissiliaria F.Muell. ex Baill. (Euphorbiaceae). Austrobaileya 5:9-27. Forster, P.I. & Welzen, P.C. von (1999). The Malesian species of Choriceras, Fontainea & Petalostigma (Euphorbiaceae). Blumea 44: 99- 107. 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. Henderson, R.J.F. (1992), Studies in Euphorbiaceae A.L.Juss., sens. lat. 2. A Revision of Neoroepera Muell. Arg. & F. Muell. (Oldfieldioideae K~xhler & Webster, Caletieae Muell. Arg.). Austrobaileya 3(4): 622-624. Webster, G.L. (1994b). Synopsis of the genera and subgeneric taxa of Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 81:33- 144. Webster, G.L. (2014). Euphorbiaceae. Flowering Plants. Eudicots. Malpighiales. In Kubitzki, K. (ed), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin). Vol. 11 pp. 51-216. Copyright © CSIRO 2020, all rights reserved. Web edition hosted at https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest.