Celastraceae? ID help

[Alchemica]

Today's river adventure. I'm a total novice at plant ID so excuse me. Quite a few of these, want to see if it's worth grabbing seed? First thought it could be a Celastraceae of potential medicinal benefit? Heavily in flower, the blooms are heavenly in scent. Any input appreciated.
 

The Celastraceae at the botanic gardens have been calling me, including the Maytenus. If it is, the Celastraceae family is a source of important bioactive secondary metabolites. Among the compounds isolated from their species, triterpenes and triterpenoid quinonemethides are of great interest, due to the wide range of biological activities showed by those compounds. At the present time, great interest had been devoted to the study of the species of the family searching for new candidates or prototypes of drugs than could contribute to the fight against diseases like AIDS and cancer. The isolated compounds show mainly antimicrobial, cytotoxic, antitumoral, antiviral, antiinflamatory, hepatoprotective, antifeedant and insecticidal activities.

Exciting when you start to tune to the natural world around you with curiosity and spirit, want to inspire that in people.

Spotted some nice Dodonaea down at the river too.
 

[cristop]

All of the following is based on the assumption that it is Celastraceae.

If you want to try your hand at a dichotomous key use this link: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=fm&name=CELASTRACEAE#3

In this key it looks like Maytenus is included under Denhamia. You'll need some good material to work with including some with fruits. You may also need a lens/microscope and ruler to measure the lengths of the styles, pedicels, petioles etc. There are only seven species of Denhamia in the key and you can knock out a few based on pedicel length (yours are several mms), leaf margins (yours are toothed), petioles (yours are a few mms) etc.

 

Alternatively you could search through the records online here: http://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Celastraceae&q=+(state%3A"New+South+Wales"+OR+cl2117%3A"New+South+Wales")

In this case I've just done a search for Celastraceae across all of NSW, assuming "temperate tablelands" is in NSW.  You can reduce your search to a particular local government area or bioregion using the 'advance search' options. Note that Celastraceae or Denhamia  goes in the box "taxon name" (not "text"). You'll have to wade through pages of specimens to come up with a short list of Celastraceae species.

For some species the AVH has images in their database, but in most cases you'll need to find your images elsewhere online.

 

If you can't find good matches between your specimens and images online or in the key then maybe it's not Celastraceae after all.

 

[Alchemica]

Thank you @cristop

I've done some microscope pictures, I'll work through what you've listed. Appreciate your time and help.