Primrose family : PRIMULACEAE (DILLENIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Aegiceras corniculatum River Mangrove Photo: courtesy of Todd Burrows, South Stradbroke Island, November 2010	Anagallis arvensis Scarlet Pimpernel Sydney, October 2006	Anagallis arvensis subspecies foemina Blue Pimpernel Sydney, October 2008	Ardisia crenata (white form) Coralberry Wyee, January 2007
Ardisia elliptica Shoe Button Magnetic Island Photo courtesy of Donald Simpson	Ardisia macrocarpa 'Mystique' Marlberry Wyee, January 2007	Cyclamen Cyclamen Sydney, August 2006	Lysimachia congestiflora Persian Chocolate Sydney, April 2008

Primula hybrids Primulas Sydney, August 2006

Primula malacoides Fairy Primrose Sydney, August 2006

Rapanea howittiana Muttonwood Morwell Park, January 1992

Caterpillars of some Butterflies and Moths in Australia can utilise species in PRIMULACEAE for their foodplant, including:

Nacaduba kurava

Hypochrysops narcissus

Hypolycaena phorbas

Praetaxila segecia

Macrocyttara expressa

Collix ghosha

Epyaxa sodaliata

Teia anartoides

Orgyia australis

Stenoptilodes taprobanes

Opodiphthera fervida

Oxysemaphora notialis

Adoxophyes templana

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 20 January 2013, 1 June 2020)