| Common Names - Beefwood Family | Synonyms - |
| Authority - R. Br. | Total Number of genera - 4 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 95 |
| Plant forms - Evergreen Trees, Shrubs | |
| World Distribution - Temperate to tropical. Malaysia, New Caledonia, Fiji, especially Australia , Mascarene Is. Old World tropics (Indo-Malaysia), Australia, and the Pacific islands. | |
| Comments - Offers timbers and firewood (such as Casuarina - Beefwood) | |
| 1 - Allocasuarina. 2 - Casuarina. 3 - Gymnostoma. |