 "Anthodon" has not yet been sampled for DNA, but four of its close relatives, "Hippocratea", "Pristimera", "Plagiopteron", and "Loesenerella" were sampled for a molecular phylogeny of Celastraceae that was published in 2008.The ultimate botanical fate of "Anthodon" can not presently be known.It might be subsumed into some other genus or it might be expanded by having additional species transferred to it.