For description see family.
Seeds, softwood cuttings, layers and division.
About 50 species from E Asia, N America and American tropics.
Hu (1960).
Source: (1997). Clethraceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
