Ceratopetalum

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Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids  > Fabids >  Oxalidales > Cunoniaceae > Ceratopetalum 

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• Along the eastern coast of Australia and extend north to New Guinea

• Both New South Wales Christmas bush (C. gummiferum) and coachwood (C. apetalum) are widespread from south-east Queensland to the south coast of NSW,

• The other extant Australian species are largely confined to high-altitude montane habitats in north-east Australia

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• Two Australian species are among the best known, one being C. apetalum or coachwood, renowned as a timber tree, and C. gummiferum, the New South Wales Christmas bush

• The restricted distributions have been hypothesised to be refugia from cycles of changing climate during the Pleistocene

• Species

  1. Ceratopetalum apetalum (Coachwood)

  2. Ceratopetalum corymbosum 

  3. Ceratopetalum gummiferum (NSW Christmas bush)

  4. Ceratopetalum hylandii 

  5. Ceratopetalum iugumensis 

  6. Ceratopetalum macrophyllum 

  7. Ceratopetalum succirubrum 

  8. Ceratopetalum tetrapterum 

  9. Ceratopetalum virchowii 

  10. †Ceratopetalum suciensis (Campanian)

• Fossil evidence

  1. Fossil evidence for Ceratopetalum species has been found in Eocene deposits in South Australia

  2. Named fossil species include Ceratopetalum maslinensis and Ceratopetalum westermannii

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopetalum (Jan 2024)