St. John's Wort family : CLUSIACEAE (DILLENIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Calophyllum inophyllum Beauty Leaf, Magnetic island Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Garcinia mangostana Mangosteen Sydney, June 2006

Hypericum calycinum Rose of Sharon Hobart, December 1984

Hypericum gramineum Small St. John's Wort Wyee, December 2007

Hypericum japonicum Japanese St. John's wort Wyee, February 2007

A number of Butterfly and Moth species in Australia have larvae that feed on plants in CLUSIACEAE, including:

Arhopala micale	Eurema drona

Aplocera plagiata

Phrissogonus laticostata

Phyllocnistis citrella

Aetholix flavibasalis

Hyposidra incomptaria

Stictoptera cuculloides

Amplypterus panopus

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 21 May 2026)