Erect to prostrate shrubs, often hispid. Flowers in terminal or upper-axillary racemes, or solitary; calyx 5-lobed, often enlarged and succulent in fruit, surrounding or enclosing the capsule; corolla urceolate or campanulate, shortly 5-lobed; stamens 10, not exceeding corolla, the filaments dilated at base; anthers dehiscing by apical pores. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing by 5 valves, ± enclosed by the enlarged succulent calyx.
Over 100 species, chiefly from southern and central America, also Malesia, New Zealand; 4 species in Australia.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Ericaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 509–514. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
