Quandong family : SANTALACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Choretrum candollei White Sour Bush Grandchester, January 2010 Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett	Exocarpos cupressiformis Australian Native Cherry Wyee, January 2007	Exocarpos latifolius Scrub Ballart Rosewood, January 2008 Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett	Exocarpos stricta Pale Ballart Wandoan, May 2009 Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett
Korthalsella taenioides Zygocactus Mistletoe Wyangapinni, June 2009 Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett	Notothixos incanus Downy Mistletoe Prenzlau, December 2009 Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett	Omphacomeria acerba Downy Mistletoe Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington	Santalum acuminatum Quandong Normanville, January 2005 Photo: courtesy of Elizabeth Gordon-Mills

Santalum lanceolatum Northern Sandalwood Surat, October 2009 Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett

Santalum spicatum Sandalwood Flinders ranges, July 2009

Viscum articulatum Leafless Mistletoe Prenzlau, June 2009 Photo: courtesy of Martin Bennett

Plants in SANTALACEAE are food for the caterpillars of a number of Australian Butterflies and Moths, including:

Ogyris otanes	Hypochrysops elgneri	Delias aganippe	Delias argenthona	Delias ennia	Delias nysa
Paraepermenia santaliella	Chelepteryx chalepteryx	Phelotis cognata	Scioglyptis lyciaria	Anisozyga insperata	Chlorocoma externa

Genduara acedesta

Genduara punctigera

Genduara subnotata

Pararguda nasuta

Ctenomeristis almella

Pantydia sparsa

Philarista porphyrinella

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 6 September 2013, 8 December 2018, 2 May 2020, 12 March 2021)