Spurge family : EUPHORBIACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Acalypha pendula Kitten Tails Newtown, December 2006	Acalypha wilkesiana Copperleaf Sydney, August 2006	Adriana tomentosa Bitterbush Lockyer Valley, Qld Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett	Aleurites moluccana Candlenut Bundaberg, December 2006
Amperea xiphoclada Broom Spurge Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington	Beyeria lasiocarpa Wallaby Bush Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington	Beyeria opaca Dark Turpentine Bush Annuello Reserve, Victoria Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Chamaesyce maculata Prostrate Spurge Sydney, January 2009
Codiaeum variegatum Croton Sydney, October 2006 courtesy of Inbloom Florist, Burwood	Croton insularis Silver Croton Wyee, September 2009	Croton verreauxii Green Australian Cascarilla Wyee, October 2007	Euphorbia cyathophora Dwarf Poinsettia Bundaberg, April 2008
Euphorbia helioscopia Sun Spurge Sydney, August 2006	Euphorbia lathyris Caper Spurge Sydney, August 2006	Euphorbia leucocephala Snow-flake Bush Bonogin, July 2007	Euphorbia pulcherrima Poinsettia Sydney, August 2006
Euphorbia splendens Crown of Thorns Sydney, August 2006	Euphorbia tirucalli Pencil Bush Sydney, December 2006	Euphorbia trigona African Milk Tree Sydney, August 2006	Jatropha podagrica Gout Plant

Pedilanthus tithymaloides Devil's Backbone Bundaberg, December 2006

Poranthera microphylla Small Poranthera Wyee, September 2007

Ricinus communis Castor Oil Plant Sydney, August 2006

Sapium sebiferum Chinese Tallow Wyee, November 2006

Chaetocneme beata

Chaetocneme critomedia

Theclinesthes albocincta

Philiris nitens

Philiris sappheira

Megisba strongyle

Phalanta phalantha

Delias aestiva

Achaea argilla	Speiredonia spectans	Atasthalistis ochreoviridella	Berta chrysolineata	Lamprolepida chrysochroa	Orthaga seminivea	Iscadia inexacta
Parotis atlitalis	Euthrausta oxyprora	Helictophanes prospera	Urapteroides astheniata	Lyssa macleayi	Alcides metaurus	Lophopepla triselena

Oxycophina theorina

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 3 January 2013, 18 November 2022)