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Elaeocarpaceae genera

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Elaeocarpus
Elaeocarpus is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the western Indian Ocean, tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Plants in the genus are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five petals, and usually blue fruit. thumb|Elaeocarpus sylvestris fruits thumb|Elaeocarpus dentatus foliage thumb|Elaeocarpus grandiflorus flowers, at [[Munnar]] thumb|Elaeocarpus tuberculatus thumb|Pulvina at both ends of the petiole. Elaeocarpus multiflorus
Aristotelia
genus of plants
Sloanea
Sloanea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae, comprising about 150 species.
Tetratheca
thumb|right|Tetratheca thymifolia
Aceratium
Aceratium is a genus of about 20 species of trees and shrubs of eastern Malesia and Australasia from the family Elaeocarpaceae. In Australia, they are commonly known as carabeens. They grow naturally in rainforests, as large shrubs to understorey trees and large trees.
Crinodendron
Crinodendron is a genus of evergreen shrubs or trees belonging to the family Elaeocarpaceae native to South America. Some are cultivated as ornamentals in Europe and elsewhere. They have narrow, leathery evergreen leaves and pendent bell-shaped flowers in red, pink or white.
Sericolea
Sericolea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Elaeocarpaceae.
Dubouzetia
Dubouzetia is a genus of about eleven species known to science, growing from shrubs up to large trees, in Papuasia and Australasia and constituting part of the plant family Elaeocarpaceae.
Vallea
Vallea is a genus of trees in the family Elaeocarpaceae. Trees in this genus are native to the Andes mountain range in South America and are classified in two species:
Platytheca
Platytheca is a genus of small shrubs in the family Elaeocarpaceae from the south-west of Western Australia. The genus was formally described by Joachim Steetz, his description published in Plantae Preissianae in 1845.
Tremandra
Tremandra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae. It contains two species, both endemic to Western Australia.
Peripentadenia
Peripentadenia is a genus of two species of large trees from the family Elaeocarpaceae endemic to the rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. Sometimes they have the common name quandong.