TABLE 1.

Cassytha species and their worldwide distributions.

	Cassytha species	Distribution	Habitat	Uses
1	Cassytha aurea J.Z.Weber	Western Australia	Coastal, woodlands
2	Cassytha candida (J.Z.Weber) J.Z.Weber	Northern Territory, Western Australia	Woodlands
3	Cassytha capillaris Meisn.	Assam, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku, New Guinea Northern Territory, Queensland, Vietnam, Western Australia	Around the coast, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
4	Cassytha ciliolata Nees	Cape Provinces	Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
5	Cassytha filiformis L.	Aldabra, Andaman Islands, Angola, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Brunei, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Islands, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Islands, Laos, Leeward Islands, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Line Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nicobar Islands, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Panamá, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Islands, Turks-Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Islands, Western Australia, Windward Islands, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe	Deserts and xeric shrublands, flooded grasslands and savannas, mangroves, Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub, montane grasslands and shrublands, temperate conifer forests, tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests	Cosmetics, cushioning, medicine, poison, rope-making, sources of bush tucker
6	Cassytha flava Nees	Western Australia
7	Cassytha flindersii (J.Z.Weber) J.Z.Weber	South Australia	Mountain range, forests
8	Cassytha glabella R.Br.	New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia	Near the coast, forest, shrubland	Medicine, sources of bush tucker
9	Cassytha larsenii Kosterm.	Thailand	Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
10	Cassytha melantha R.Br.	New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia	Around the coast and far inland	Medicinal or poisonous (containing alkaloids and essentia oils)
11	Cassytha micrantha Meisn.	Western Australia	Near the coast and inland to the mountain range
12	Cassytha nodiflora Meisn.	Western Australia	Along the coast, sandy flats
13	Cassytha pedicellosa J.Z.Weber	Tasmania	Near the coast, heathland
14	Cassytha peninsularis J.Z.Weber	South Australia	Around the coast, mountain range
15	Cassytha pomiformis Nees	Western Australia	Along the coast and also inland	Medicinal or poisonous (containing alkaloids and essential oils)
16	Cassytha pondoensis Engl.	Angola, Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Around the coast, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests	Medicine
17	Cassytha pubescens R.Br.	New South Wales, New Zealand North, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria	Along the coast, temperate broadleaf and mixed forests	Biocontrol agent, medicinal or poisonous (containing alkaloids and essential oils)
18	Cassytha racemosa Nees	New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia	Along the coast	Medicinal or poisonous (containing alkaloids and essential oils)
19	Cassytha rufa J.Z.Weber	Queensland	Woodlands, forests

We used the latest version of The Plant List for species nomenclature. The distribution information was based on the Plants of the World Online (POWO) and the habitat of species was from Weber (1981, 2007), Olson and Dinerstein (2002), and POWO. The uses of species was summarized from the text of the third paragraph in Introduction.