Lemon family: RUTACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia
including
Amyridaceae, Aurantiaceae, Boroniaceae, Cneoraceae, Correaceae, Cuspariaceae, Dictamnaceae, Diosmaceae, Diplolaenaceae, Flindersiaceae, Fraxinellaceae, Pilocarpaceae, Ptaeroxylaceae, Pteleaceae, and Zanthoxylaceae

Flower
Families
Flowers in Australia
  
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
&
Christine Ashe
  
Plants in Australia Plant
Classes

Achronychia oblongifolia
Common Achronychia
Wyee, February 2007

Asterolasia correifolia
Star Bush
Wyee, October 2008

Boronia caerulescens
Blue boronia
Photo: courtesy of
Laura Levens
Annuello Reserve, Victoria

Boronia megastigma
Brown boronia
Victoria, September 2007
Photo: courtesy of
Jenny Holmes

Boronia pinnata
Pink Boronia
Sydney, ca. 1880
Drawing by
Harriet and Helena Scott
courtesy of the
National Art Gallery of Australia

Calodendron capense
Cape Chestnut
Concord, November 2006

Choisya ternata
Mexican Orange Blossom
Sydney, August 2006

Citrus aurantifolia
Limes
Sydney, August 2006

Citrus hystrix
Kaffir Lime
October 2006
Photo: courtesy of
Charles Hibbert

Citrus limon
Lemons
Sydney, August 2006

Citrus paradisi
Grapefruit
Sydney, August 2006

Citrus reticulata
Mandarins
Sydney, August 2006

Citrus sinensis
Oranges
Sydney, August 2006

Coleonema pulchellum
Pink Diosma
Sydney, October 2006

Correa alba
White Correa
Sydney, April 2008

Correa 'Dusky Bells'
Dusky Bells
Wyee, February 2007

Correa reflexa
Australian Fuchsia
Kamarooka, Victoria
Photo: courtesy of
Laura Levens

Eriostemon australasius
Pink Wax Flower
Wyee, November 2009

Flindersia collina
Leopard Ash
Photo: courtesy of
Jean Gundry

Flindersia schottiana
Cudgerie
Wyee, November 2008

Fortunella japonica
Marumi Kumquat
Melbourne, April 2008

Fortunella margarita
Nagami Kumquat
Sydney, August 2006

Geijera parviflora
Wilga
Wyee, October 2008

Glycosmis pentaphylla
Pink Lime
Finch Hatton, March 2008
Photo: courtesy of
Jan MacDonald

Medicosma cunninghamii
Bonewood
Wyee, February 2009

Melicope bonwickii
Yellow Evodia
Photo: courtesy of Gus Lee,
Cairns, May 2019

Melicope elleryana
Pink Euodia
Photo: courtesy of
Donald Simpson,
Magnetic Island

Melicope micrococca
White Evodia
Wyee, January 2007

Melicope rubra
Little Evodia
Coombabah
Photo: courtesy of
Ruth Jessop,

Microcitrus australasica
Finger Lime
Maitland, February, 2010
Photo: courtesy of
Terry Calderwood,

Murraya paniculata
Mock Orange
Sydney, August 2006

Phebalium bullatum
Desert Phebalium
Sydney, August 2006

Phebalium whitei
Phebalium
Pine Plains, Victoria
Photo: courtesy of
Laura Levens

Philotheca myoporoides
Long Leaf Wax Flower
Wyee, January 2007

Ruta graveolens
Common Rue
Wyee, October 2008

Zieria smithii
Sandfly Zieria
Wyee, July 2007

The caterpillars of many Butterfly species in Australia feed on plants in RUTACEAE, including:


Nesolycaena alboserica

Neopithecops cephenes

Neopithecops lucifer

Papilio aegeus

Papilio ambrax

Papilio anactus

Papilio amynthor

Papilio demoleus

Papilio fuscus

Graphium choredon

Graphium macleayanum

Papilio memnon

Papilio ulysses

and the caterpillars of over 50 Moth species in Australia feed on plants in RUTACEAE or their fruits, including species from the moth families :

COSMOPTERIGIDAE

Pyroderces rileyi
CRAMBIDAE

Conogethes punctiferalis
DEPRESSARIIDAE

Psorosticha zizyphi
EREBIDAE

Dichomeris capnites
GELECHIADAE

Dichomeris capnites
GRACILLARIIDAE

Phyllocnistis citrella
GEOMETRIDAE

Capusa cuculloides
LIMACODIDAE

Comana albibasis
NOCTUIDAE

Spodoptera frugiperda
NOLIDAE

Thriponea nigrostrigata
PSYCHIDAE

Dappula tertius
SATURNIIDAE

Austrocaligula eucalypti
TOTRICIDAE

Cryptoptila immersana
XYLORYCTIDAE

Maroga melanostigma

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(updated 13 December 2014, 21 July 2026)