A Hamamelidaceae occurs as personal of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, including 27 genera & astir 80-90 coinage, everthing shrubs and small trees. Around older classifications like a Cronquist system, the personal was treated around the separate sequentially Hamamelidales.

;Genera Chunia Corylopsis (Winter-hazel; about Xxx metal money; east Asia) Dicoryphe Disanthus (1 metal money; east Asia) Distiliopsis Distylium (about Decade mintage; east Asia) Embolanthera Eustigma Exbucklandia (1 metal money; sou'-east Asia) Fortunearia (1 coinage; eastern China) Fothergilla (Fothergilla; 3 metal money; southeastern U.S.) Hamamelis (Witch-hazel; 4 metal money; eastern North America, east Asia) Loropetalum (2 mintage; east Asia) Maingaya Matudaea Molinadendron Mytilaria Neostrearia Noahdendron Ostrearia Parrotia (Persian Ironwood; 1 mintage; Alborz Mountains of southwest Asia) Parrotiopsis (1 mintage; Himalaya) Rhodoleia (about Septet coinage; south-east Asia) Sinowilsonia (1 metal money; american China) Sycopsis (about Septet mintage; south-east Asia) Tetrathyrium Trichocladus

A bit of authors handle Rhodoleia within a personal of its have, the Rhodoleiaceae, though hereditary the food and drug administration per Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows it is better involved in the Hamamelidaceae.

A genera Altingia, Liquidambar (sweetgum) and Semiliquidambar, antecedently involved in the Hamamelidaceae, come nowadays treated in the personal Altingiaceae.