Gentian family : GENTIANACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Centaurium erythraea Centaury Nambour, December 2006

Centaurium tenuiflorum Branched Centaury Morwell Park, December 1999

Exacum affine Persian Violet courtesy of Concord Florist

Eustoma grandiflorum Lisianthus Prairie Gentian courtesy of Concord Florist

Sebaea ovata Yellow Centaury Morwell Park, November 1990

The plants in GENTIANACEAE are possible foodplants of some Australian Butterflies and Moths, including:

Precis villida

Psilogramma papuensis

Stenoptilodes taprobanes

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 14 February 2020)