Quandong family
SANTALACEAE in Australia

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

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Exocarpus cupressiformis Australian Native Cherry Wyee, January 2007

Santalum acuminatum Quandong Photo: courtesy of Elizabeth Gordon-Mills, Normanville (South Australia), January 2005

Santalum spicatum Sandalwood Flinders ranges, July 2009

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	Genduara acedesta

Genduara punctigera

Genduara subnotata

Philarista porphyrinella

Ctenomeristis almella

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Australian butterflies

Plant Classes

Australian moths

(updated 30 November 2011)