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| Authority - Lindl. | Total Number of genera - 4 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 11 |
| Plant forms - Tree/Shrub | |
| World Distribution - Tropical Australia, China, Temp. N. Am./Temperate to sub-tropical. Eastern Asia, North America. | |
| Comments - Aromatic deciduous shrubs growing to 2–4 m tall, except for Idiospermum, which is a large evergreen tree | |
| 1 - Butneria. 2 - Calycantha. 3 - Chimonanthus. 4 - Idiospermum. |